J. E. Dyson, D. A. Williams

The Physics of the Interstellar Medium (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This third edition of The Physics of the Interstellar Medium continues to introduce advanced undergraduates to the fundamental processes and the wide range of disciplines needed to understand observations of the interstellar medium and its role in the Milky Way galaxy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000163155
• Artikelnr.: 59804736

Autorenporträt

John Dyson made outstanding research contributions over many years to our

understanding of the responses of interstellar media to winds from stars and

from active galaxies. He had a huge influence on these subjects and his work

gained an international reputation. Much of his career was at the University of

Manchester where he became Professor of Astronomy and Head of Astrophysics.

He moved in 1996 to the University of Leeds, becoming Dean of Research, and

was appointed Emeritus Research Professor in 2006.

He died in 2010 and is much missed by friends and colleagues world-wide

who valued his scientific insight, quick wit, kindness and generosity.

David Williams is currently Emeritus Perren Professor of Astronomy at University

College London. While at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in the 1960s he

became interested in interstellar molecules and interstellar dust as potential

probes of the interstellar medium. When John Dyson and David were both

working in Manchester, John emphasised the importance of cosmic gas dynamics

in understanding interstellar chemistry and dust, and David built a research

group at UMIST to investigate these and other topics. He left Manchester in

1994 for UCL and has continued to study problems in interstellar physics and

chemistry.