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· 분류 : 외국도서 > 과학/수학/생태 > 과학 > 천문학
· ISBN : 9783642260735
· 쪽수 : 354쪽
· 출판일 : 2012-03-14
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Foreword.- Preface.- Chapter 1 Introduction - the Life of Ruby Violet Payne-Scott -28 May 1912 (Grafton NSW, Australia) to 25 May 1981 (Sydney Australia).- Chapter 2 Ruby Payne-Scott - the Early Years: 1912-1938, Ancestors, Childhood, Secondary School and Sydney University.- Chapter 3 Woodlands Church of England Girls' Grammar School, Glenelg (Adelaide).- Chapter 4 Personnel File from CSIR/CSIRO.- Chapter 5 War Time Research by Payne-Scott at RPL.- Chapter 6 Payne-Scott - the first woman radio astronomer and the transition to peacetime - 1944-1945.- Chapter 7 Payne-Scott at Dover Heights 1945-1947 - Discovery of Type I, II and III Solar Bursts and the Introduction of Fourier Synthesis in Astronomy.- Chapter 8 Hornsby 1948 - Type III Bursts Revealed; Conflicts with Bolton.- Chapter 9 Payne-Scott at Potts Hill, 1949-1951 - Movies of the outward motions of solar outbursts with the Swept-Lobe Interferometer.- Chapter 10 Payne-Scott and URSI, 1952 - her last experience as a radio astronomer.- Chapter 11 Reminiscences and Anecdotes of Ruby Payne-Scott as told by Friends and Colleagues.- Chapter 12 A Remarkable Family: Bill and Ruby Hall.- Chapter 13 Payne-Scott, Communist Party of Australia, Commonwealth Investigation Service and Australian Security Intelligence Organisation.- CHAPTER 14 Danebank School 1963-1974; the Ruby Payne-Scott Lectures. Chapter 15 The End of Payne-Scott's Life - A Retrospective.- Chapter 16 Epilogue - Why did we write this book ?.- Appendices.