MARCUS CHOWN (Londres, 1959) es un escritor y divulgador científico británico. Se licenció en Física en la Universidad de Londres y obtuvo un doctorado en Astrofísica en el Instituto Tecnológico de California. Es asesor de cosmología para la prestigiosa revista New Scientist y ha escrito numerosos libros sobre cosmología, orientados sobre todo al público general. Además, por su agudo sentido del humor, ha participado en numerosos programas de radio y televisión realizando divulgación científica con un cariz humorístico.
18 หนังสืออิเล็กทรอนิกส์โดย Marcus Chown
Marcus Chown: Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You
The two towering achievements of modern physics are quantum theory and Einstein's general theory of relativity. Together, they explain virtually everything about the world we live in. But, almos …
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Marcus Chown: Never-Ending Days of Being Dead
Marcus Chown's highly accessible exploration of reality, the nature of the universe, and the place of life within it. Starting with the questions being asked by the world's most daring and …
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Marcus Chown: Afterglow of Creation
Stephen Hawking described it as 'the discovery of the century, if not of all time', yet the scientists who first detected the cosmic radiation that was identified as the afterglow of the bi …
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Marcus Chown: We Need to Talk About Kelvin
Look around you. The reflection of your face in a window tells you that the universe is orchestrated by chance. The iron in a spot of blood on your finger tells you that somewhere out in space there …
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Marcus Chown: What a Wonderful World
With wit, colour and clarity, What A Wonderful World quickly and painlessly brings us up to speed on how the world of the 21st century works. From economics to physics and biology to philosophy, Marc …
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Marcus Chown & Govert Schilling: Tweeting the Universe
In 140 pages, two masterly popularisers present 140 explanations of the biggest questions in physics – in the form of 10 or so tweets per page. They set themselves the challenge of boiling down what …
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Marcus Chown: Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand
A mind-bending journey through some of the most weird and wonderful facts about our universe, vividly illuminating the hidden truths that govern our everyday lives. Fact: You could fit the whole huma …
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Marcus Chown & John Gribbin: Double Planet
The Dragon, an enormous comet, is on a trajectory that will bring it perilously close to an Earth that is still suffering from the scars of a nuclear incident, and from the problems of the Greenhouse …
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Marcus Chown & John Gribbin: Reunion
It is over a thousand years since the events of Double Planet, when a group of cosmonauts crashed a comet into the Moon, thereby bringing a potential life-supporting atmosphere to that desolate plane …
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Marcus Chown: Ascent of Gravity
The Sunday Times Science Book of the Year 2017’Does Einstein proud . . . Eminently readable’ Guardian’No one has covered the topic with such a light touch and joie de vivre . . . a delight’ Brian Cle …
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Marcus Chown: Magic Furnace
Every atom in our bodies has an extraordinary history. Our blood, our food, our books, our clothes – everything contains atoms forged in blistering furnaces deep inside stars, which were blown into s …
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Marcus Chown: Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand
<p><b>Bestselling author Marcus Chown explores some of the most profound and important science about us, our world and beyond by examining some astonishing facts that reveal the vast comp …
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Marcus Chown: Magicians
The spellbinding stories of the scientists whose eureka! breakthroughs in modern physics reveal science's astonishing predictive power. 'An excellent popular science book.'DARA O BRIAI …
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Marcus Chown: Breakthrough
The spellbinding stories of the scientists whose eureka! breakthroughs in modern physics reveal science's astonishing predictive power. 'An excellent popular science book.'DARA O BRIAI …
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Marcus Chown: El universo en tu bolsillo
Este no es un libro cualquiera. En él cabe el universo entero, desde lo que siempre quisiste saber hasta lo que nunca te habías planteado: el origen de la vida, la civilización, el dinero, los orden …
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NewScientist & Stephen Battersby: Nothing
The writers behind New Scientist explore the baffling concept of nothingness from the fringes of the universe to our minds’ inner workings. It turns out that nothing is as curious or as enlight …
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Marcus Chown: One Thing You Need to Know
<p><b>From gravity to black holes, special relativity to global warming, this authoritative and entertaining book from bestselling author Marcus Chown breaks down complex science into man …
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Marcus Chown: Crack in Everything
What is space? What is time? Where did the universe come from? The answers to mankind’s most enduring questions may lie in science’s greatest enigma: black holes.A black hole is a region of space whe …
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