Gribbin: Stardust
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(New page: {{BNR-table|scienticity=5|readability=4|hermeneutics=5|charisma=4|recommendation=4}} John Gribbin with Mary Gribbin, ''Stardust : Supernovae and Life—The Cosmic Connection''. New Haven, ...) |
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| - | And so the central idea of the book is stellar nucleosynthesis: how the various elements come to be made in stars and supernovae through nuclear fusion in a process that is well understood now but was a novel idea in 1939 when Hans Bethe | + | And so the central idea of the book is stellar nucleosynthesis: how the various elements come to be made in stars and supernovae through nuclear fusion in a process that is well understood now but was a novel idea in 1939 when Hans Bethe published his groundbreaking paper in ''Physical Review'' on "Energy Production in Stars". Unraveling the mystery of how stars continued to shine, where their energy came from, synthesized new knowledge of nuclear processes and astrophysics, and led to the realization that heavy elements were not made in the Big Bang but were created in stars and supernovae. |
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