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Taking the back off the watch: a personal memoir

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Main Author:	Gold, Thomas 1920-2004 (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Berlin [u.a.] Springer 2012
Series:	Astrophysics and space science library 381
Subjects:	Gold, Thomas > 1920-2004 Autobiografie
Online Access:	Inhaltstext Inhaltsverzeichnis
Physical Description:	XVII, 232 S. Ill. 25 cm
ISBN:	9783642275876 9783642275883

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adam_text	IMAGE 1 CONTENTS 1 SCHOOL YEARS IN TROUBLED TIMES 1 FAMILY BACKGROUND 1 SCHOOLING IN BERLIN 4 ESCAPE FROM BERLIN 5 SCHOOL IN SWITZERLAND 6 A FAIRY TALE 11 2 WARTIME STUDENT DAYS 13 ADMISSION TO CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY 13 INTERNMENT 15 BACK TO CAMBRIDGE 17 3 WARTIME WORK FOR THE BRITISH NAVY 19 WAITING FOR THE SECURITY CLEARANCE 19 THE ADMIRALTY SIGNAL ESTABLISHMENT 22 TANTALLON 24 EXCURSIONS TO SNOWDON 27 A SPY STORY 28 THE SNORKEL WAR 28 ULTRASOUND 32 PREPARATIONS FOR THE INVASION OF EUROPE 34 THE GERMANS' SURRENDER 39 TRAVELS AS WING COMMANDER IN THE ROYAL AIR FORCE 4 0 4 RETURN TO CAMBRIDGE: THE CITADEL O F LEARNING 47 THEORY OF HEARING 49 THE RATIO CLUB 59 THE EEL AND THE HELIX 60 THE DOUBLE BOOM O F SUPERSONIC AIRCRAFT 62 COSMOLOGICAL THEORY 64 THE STEADY STATE UNIVERSE 69 DEBATE WITH THE CAMBRIDGE RADIO ASTRONOMERS 75 X V HTTP://D-NB.INFO/1017779252 IMAGE 2 XVI C O N T E N T S ELECTRICAL PHENOMENA IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM 79 ELECTION OF CHANCELLOR O F THE UNIVERSITY O F CAMBRIDGE 81 ELECTION OF CHANCELLOR O F THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE 83 SPINNING DUST IN SPACE 87 5 APPOINTMENT AT THE ROYAL GREENWICH OBSERVATORY 91 AXIS O F ROTATION OF THE EARTH 92 THE SURFACE OF THE MOON 96 ECLIPSE EXPEDITION 99 APPOINTMENT O F R. R. WOOLLEY AS ASTRONOMER ROYAL 100 6 MOVE TO AMERICA 103 PALOMAR OBSERVATORY AND THE CRAB NEBULA 103 A GENIUS WITH PUZZLES 109 THE ARROW OF TIME 110 THE SOLVAY CONFERENCE 115 7 MOVE TO CORNELL 117 SETTING UP THE CENTER FOR RADIOPHYSICS AND SPACE RESEARCH 117 THE GREAT RADIO TELESCOPE AT ARECIBO 118 THE ROTATION OF THE PLANET MERCURY: A CAUTIONARY TALE 126 8 THE PULSAR ERA 131 9 NASA: THE LOVE-HATE RELATIONSHIP 145 GETTING TO KNOW THE MOON 146 THE VAN ALLEN RADIATION BELTS 146 WASHINGTON COMMITTEE WORK 149 APOLLO 151 THE LUNAR STEREO CAMERA 155 SPACE SUITS 159 MEASUREMENTS OF DUST GRAINS 163 THE SEISMIC OBSERVATIONS 164 THE SCIENTIFIC CONCLUSIONS OF THE APOLLO FLIGHTS 166 SPACE MANUFACTURING 167 THE MARS DELUSION 168 NASA POLICY IN THE 1990S 169 10 ORIGIN O F PETROLEUM ON EARTH 171 THE DEBATE ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF PETROLEUM 171 ORIGIN O F THE CARBON ON THE EARTH 173 ASSOCIATION O F HYDROCARBONS WITH HELIUM 175 MICROBIAL LIFE 176 THE DEEP, HOT BIOSPHERE 178 THE ORIGIN O F DIAMONDS 180 IMAGE 3 CONTENTS XVII HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL PATTERNS OF HYDROCARBON FIELDS 181 HOW DO LIQUIDS OR GASES MAKE THEIR WAY UP THROUGH THE CRUST? 181 THE SEARCH FOR HYDROCARBONS IN THE BEDROCK O F SWEDEN 183 THE SECOND HOLE 191 11 EARTHQUAKES 195 THE SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE 198 OTHER HISTORICAL EARTHQUAKES 199 TSUNAMIS, EARTHQUAKE SPOTS, AND MUD VOLCANOES 200 FURTHER EVIDENCE FOR MASSIVE GAS EMISSIONS 202 ARE EARTHQUAKES CAUSED BY GAS ERUPTIONS? 204 CAN EARTHQUAKES BE PREDICTED? 205 DO THE LARGE EMISSIONS OF A LIGHT AND FLAMMABLE GAS POSE A HAZARD FOR AIRCRAFT? 208 BIBLIOGRAPHY 213 12 UNFINISHED BUSINESS 215 THE STRANGE CASE O F IO 217 PULSARS 220 THE SWEDISH DRILLING EXPERIMENT 221 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 223 A PERSONAL POSTSCRIPT 225 INDEX 227
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