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100 1 $aGiacconi, Riccardo.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80089661
245 10 $aSecrets of the hoary deep :$ba personal history of modern astronomy /$cRiccardo Giacconi.
260 $aBaltimore :$bJohns Hopkins University Press,$c2008.
300 $axiii, 411 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations (some color) ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 379-389) and indexes.
505 00 $g1.$tMy Italian Roots -- $g2.$tNew World: Wheelwright 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 -- $g14.$tThe Space Telescope Science Institute: Launch Readiness and Its Finest Hour -- $g15.$tScience at the Space Telescope Science Institute -- $g16.$tThe European Southern Observatory -- $g17.$tBuilding the Very Large Telescope -- $g18.$tThe Role of ESO in Major European Astronomy Programs -- $g19.$tRadio Astronomy on the Radar -- $g20.$tFirst Loves and Last Words.
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."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aX-ray astronomy$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aAstronomy$xHistory$y20th century.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0805/2007044287-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0805/2007044287-d.html
852 00 $bglx$hQB472$i.G53 2008