Beating the odds the life and times of E.A. Milne /
Smith, Meg Weston.
Beating the odds the life and times of E.A. Milne / Meg Weston Smith ; foreword by Roger Penrose. - London : Imperial College Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Ch. 1. A foothold on the ladder -- chapter 2. The upheavals of war -- chapter 3. Adventures with reflections -- chapter 4. The trials of trumpets -- chapter 5. Cambridge rhapsody -- chapter 6. Riding on a sunbeam -- chapter 7. New horizons -- chapter 8. A scientific wilderness -- chapter 9. Cut and thrust -- chapter 10. Family versus college -- chapter 11. Cosmic inspiration -- chapter 12. Oxford's enlightenment -- chapter 13. The pendulum and the atom -- chapter 14. Lifeline -- chapter 15. Mathematics, bombs and bureaucracy -- chapter 16. An invitation -- chapter 17. A race unfinished.
E A Milne was one of the giants of 20th century astrophysics and cosmology. His bold ideas, underpinned by his Christianity, sparked controversy - he believed two time scales operate in the universe. Struggling against poverty, Milne won five scholarships to Cambridge, but he never finished his degree. In World War I he was invited to develop Horace Darwin's device for anti-aircraft gunnery and after the Armistice his prowess in ballistics took him straight to a Fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge. By the age of thirty he was a Manchester professor and a Fellow of the Royal Society. At Oxford he battled to improve the university's attitude towards science, and established a world-centre of astrophysics. He suffered from Parkinsonism in his forties, the consequence of his having had encephalitis lethargica as a young man. However, buoyed by his Christian faith, he did not slacken his pace. When he died, twice widowed, the author - Milne's daughter - was a teenager. This book is born out of curiosity. The author's aim is to show the human face of science, how the course of her father's life was shaped by circumstance and by the influence of illustrious friends and colleagues such as Einstein, Eddington, G H Hardy, J B S Haldane, Hubble, F A Lindemann and Rutherford. Against all odds, Milne emerged as a scientific powerhouse - and a rebellious one at that.
9781848169081 9781848169432
Milne, Edward Arthur, 1896-1950 --Religion.
Astrophysicists--Great Britain--Biography.
Astrophysics.
Cosmology.
Religion and science.
Electronic Books.
QB460 / .B438 2013
Beating the odds the life and times of E.A. Milne / Meg Weston Smith ; foreword by Roger Penrose. - London : Imperial College Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Ch. 1. A foothold on the ladder -- chapter 2. The upheavals of war -- chapter 3. Adventures with reflections -- chapter 4. The trials of trumpets -- chapter 5. Cambridge rhapsody -- chapter 6. Riding on a sunbeam -- chapter 7. New horizons -- chapter 8. A scientific wilderness -- chapter 9. Cut and thrust -- chapter 10. Family versus college -- chapter 11. Cosmic inspiration -- chapter 12. Oxford's enlightenment -- chapter 13. The pendulum and the atom -- chapter 14. Lifeline -- chapter 15. Mathematics, bombs and bureaucracy -- chapter 16. An invitation -- chapter 17. A race unfinished.
E A Milne was one of the giants of 20th century astrophysics and cosmology. His bold ideas, underpinned by his Christianity, sparked controversy - he believed two time scales operate in the universe. Struggling against poverty, Milne won five scholarships to Cambridge, but he never finished his degree. In World War I he was invited to develop Horace Darwin's device for anti-aircraft gunnery and after the Armistice his prowess in ballistics took him straight to a Fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge. By the age of thirty he was a Manchester professor and a Fellow of the Royal Society. At Oxford he battled to improve the university's attitude towards science, and established a world-centre of astrophysics. He suffered from Parkinsonism in his forties, the consequence of his having had encephalitis lethargica as a young man. However, buoyed by his Christian faith, he did not slacken his pace. When he died, twice widowed, the author - Milne's daughter - was a teenager. This book is born out of curiosity. The author's aim is to show the human face of science, how the course of her father's life was shaped by circumstance and by the influence of illustrious friends and colleagues such as Einstein, Eddington, G H Hardy, J B S Haldane, Hubble, F A Lindemann and Rutherford. Against all odds, Milne emerged as a scientific powerhouse - and a rebellious one at that.
9781848169081 9781848169432
Milne, Edward Arthur, 1896-1950 --Religion.
Astrophysicists--Great Britain--Biography.
Astrophysics.
Cosmology.
Religion and science.
Electronic Books.
QB460 / .B438 2013