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020			_a9781848169081 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
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050	0	4	_aQB460 _b.B438 2013
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aSmith, Meg Weston. _e1
245	1	0	_aBeating the odds _bthe life and times of E.A. Milne / _cMeg Weston Smith ; foreword by Roger Penrose.
260			_aLondon : _bImperial College Press, _c(c)2013.
300			_a1 online resource.
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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505	0	0	_aCh. 1. A foothold on the ladder -- _tchapter 2. The upheavals of war -- _tchapter 3. Adventures with reflections -- _tchapter 4. The trials of trumpets -- _tchapter 5. Cambridge rhapsody -- _tchapter 6. Riding on a sunbeam -- _tchapter 7. New horizons -- _tchapter 8. A scientific wilderness -- _tchapter 9. Cut and thrust -- _tchapter 10. Family versus college -- _tchapter 11. Cosmic inspiration -- _tchapter 12. Oxford's enlightenment -- _tchapter 13. The pendulum and the atom -- _tchapter 14. Lifeline -- _tchapter 15. Mathematics, bombs and bureaucracy -- _tchapter 16. An invitation -- _tchapter 17. A race unfinished.
520	0		_aE 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.
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600	1	0	_aMilne, Edward Arthur, _d1896-1950 _xReligion.
650		0	_aAstrophysicists _zGreat Britain _vBiography.
650		0	_aAstrophysics.
650		0	_aCosmology.
650		0	_aReligion and science.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell