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Teach Yourself About the Greeks by J. C. Stobart, was abridged from his full length work The Glory that was Greece (1911). Teach Yourself Amateur Acting by John Bourne, said to have been read by Michael Caine at the start of his career. [8] Teach Yourself Arabic, first published in 1943, was written by Arthur Stanley Tritton.
Chad Orzel is a professor of physics and science author, noted for his books How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog, which has been translated into 9 languages, and How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog. [1]
NASA E/PO coordinates the Astrophysics Educator Ambassador Program, consisting of 17 master educators who work with different NASA scientists and E/PO team members at SSU to develop and test workshops and curriculum materials, which are then distributed through the National Science Teacher's Association (NSTA), the California Science Teacher's ...
Neil deGrasse Tyson's Astrophysics for People in a Hurry is a popular introduction to the main concepts and issues of modern astrophysics. The author explains the origin and structure of the Universe, the force of gravity, light, dark matter and dark energy, about our place in the Cosmos and how we try to understand its laws. The book is ...
Schwarzschild's 1958 book Structure and Evolution of the Stars [8] taught a generation of astrophysicists how to apply electronic computers to the computation of stellar models. In the 1950s and ’60s he headed the Stratoscope projects, which took instrumented balloons to unprecedented heights.
His second book, Death from the Skies, describes ways astronomical events could wipe out life on Earth and was released in October 2008. [ 17 ] Plait's work has also appeared in the Encyclopædia Britannica Yearbook of Science and the Future and Astronomy magazine.
Siegel was born to "a Jewish postal worker" [2] and grew up in the Bronx, where he attended Bronx High School of Science until 1996. Siegel graduated from Northwestern University with a B.A. degree in physics, classics and integrated science in 2000, and went on to earn his Ph.D. degree in astrophysics from the University of Florida in 2006.
Adam Frank (born 1962) is an American physicist, astronomer, and writer.His scientific research has focused on computational astrophysics with an emphasis on star formation and late stages of stellar evolution.