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100 1 $aGiacconi, Riccardo.
245 10 $aSecrets of the hoary deep :$ba personal history of modern astronomy /$cRiccardo Giacconi.
260 $aBaltimore :$bJohns Hopkins University Press,$cc2008.
300 $axiii, 411 p., [16] p. of plates :$bill. (some col.) ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 379-389) and indexes.
520 1 $a"Nobel Prize winner Riccardo Giacconi's highly personal account of the birth and evolution of x-ray astronomy reveals the science, people, and institutional settings behind this incalculably important and deeply influential discipline." "Part history, part memoir, and part cutting-edge science, Secrets of the Hoary Deep is the tale of x-ray astronomy from its infancy through what can only be called its early adulthood. It also offers the companion story of how the tools, techniques, and practices designed to support and develop x-ray astronomy were transferred to optical, infrared, and radio astronomy, dramatically altering the face of modern space exploration. Giacconi relates the basic techniques developed at American Science and Engineering and explains how, where, and by whom the science was advanced."--Jacket.
505 00 $g1.$tMy Italian Roots --$g2.$tNew World: The Fulbright Fellowship --$g3.$tIntroducing X-Ray Astronomy --$g4.$tThe First Celestial X-Ray Source: Discovering Sco X-1 --$g5.$tPlans and Progress in X-Ray Astronomy --$g6.$tThe First Orbiting X-Ray Observatory: Uhuru --$g7.$tBreakthrough: The Uhuru Results --$g8.$tConstructing X-Ray Telescopes: Overcoming Technical and Institutional Hurdles --$g9.$tPlans for Space and Realities on the Ground: LOXT, Einstein, and NASA --$g10.$tThe Einstein Results: Observation Collides with Theory --$g11.$tTransitions: From American Science and Engineering to Harvard --$g12.$tThe Hubble Space Telescope and the Space Telescope Science Institute --$g13.$tParadigm Shifts: The Space Telescope Science Institute at Work.
650 0 $aX-ray astronomy$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aAstronomy$xHistory$y20th century.
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