Auteur: N. C. Wickramasinghe

Over the past decade the study of the formation and properties of interstellar grains has assumed a growing importance, going much beyond what might have been guessed only a few years ago. It has com …

Light scattering and absorption by small homogeneous particles can be worked-out exactly for spheres and infinite cylinders. Homogeneous particles of irregular shapes, when averaged with respect to r …

Living material contains about twenty different sorts of atom combined into a set of relatively simple molecules. Astrobiologists tend to believe that abiotic mater- ial will give rise to life in any …

This volume contains papers presented at an international conference to celebrate Fred Hoyle’s monumental contributions to astronomy, astrophysics and astrobiology and more generally to humanity and …