Ultraviolet and X-ray Spectroscopy of the Solar Atmosphere: 44 (Cambridge Astrophysics, Series Number 44) - Softcover

Phillips, Kenneth J. H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107407915 ISBN 13: 9781107407916

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Synopsis

This book explores features of the Sun's atmosphere, for graduate students/researchers in astrophysics and solar physics.

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About the Author

Professor Kenneth Phillips is Scientific Associate at the Natural History Museum in South Kensington, London, and specialises in solar physics and X-ray and ultraviolet spectroscopy. He is author of Guide to the Sun (1992) and has authored over 300 research papers. In 2010, he was awarded the Copernicus Medal of the Polish Academy of Sciences and in 2009, the Gold Medal of the University of Wroclaw, Poland, for collaborative projects with the solar group there. From 2002 to 2005, he held a National Research Council Senior Research Associateship at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and he worked for twenty-five years in the Space Science Department of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire. He has held honorary or visiting professorships at Queen's University, Belfast and University College London.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107407915
• ISBN 13: 9781107407916
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 360