Brian Cox (1) (1968–)
Autore di Why Does E=mc²?: (And Why Should We Care?)
Per altri autori con il nome Brian Cox, vedi la pagina di disambiguazione.
Brian Cox (1) ha come alias Brian Edward Cox.
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: Brian Cox [credit: Bob Lee]
Serie
Opere di Brian Cox
Opere a cui è stato assegnato l'alias Brian Edward Cox.
How The Universe Will End 1 copia
What is Time? 1 copia
What is Gravity? 1 copia
The Planets [DVD] [2019] 1 copia
Exit Humanity 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Cox, Brian Edward
- Data di nascita
- 1968-03-03
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Oldham, Lancashire, England, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Battersea, London, England, UK
- Istruzione
- University of Manchester
- Attività lavorative
- physicist
musician - Organizzazioni
- University of Manchester
British Humanist Association
Royal Society - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Lord Kelvin Award (2006)
Order of the British Empire (2010)
Michael Faraday Prize (2012)
Utenti
Recensioni
Forces of Nature di Brian Cox
If you like physics and or maths with a bit of chemistry this is for you
½
Haven't listened to their radio show, but really enjoyed this book.
Nice style, easy humour.
Many of the concepts over my head, but learnt a fair bit.
Nice style, easy humour.
Many of the concepts over my head, but learnt a fair bit.
A very enjoyable book that dashes through the structure of our universe while trying all the time to explain how you get there by looking at simple everyday calculations.
I have read many similar books so not much new information but I really enjoyed the grounding of results into everyday measures. I would figure this book is perfect to convert skeptical conspiracists into some form of reason.
I have read many similar books so not much new information but I really enjoyed the grounding of results into everyday measures. I would figure this book is perfect to convert skeptical conspiracists into some form of reason.
A description of the planets, and our increasing understanding of them, through the history of astronomy and then through the succession of exploratory missions that have been undertaken in the last 50 years or so. What has been revealed is truly amazing, with the frozen gas giants at one one of the system, living at -180 deg C yet still showing signs of atmospheric activity, and desiccated Mercury at the other end.
What surprised me was the number of missions which have been launched, and which I was completely unaware of! It is amazing how they are able to control satellites billions of kilometres away from us.… (altro)
What surprised me was the number of missions which have been launched, and which I was completely unaware of! It is amazing how they are able to control satellites billions of kilometres away from us.… (altro)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 25
- Utenti
- 2,571
- Popolarità
- #9,990
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 47
- ISBN
- 144
- Lingue
- 12
- Preferito da
- 1
