The Cosmic Microwave Background: 25 Years Later: Proceedings of a Meeting on ‘The Cosmic Microwave Background: 25 Years Later’, Held in L’Aquila, ... (Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 164) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9401067791 ISBN 13: 9789401067799

Publisher: Springer, 2011

Synopsis

This book is the result of a Meeting held in L'Aquila (Italy) from the 19th to the 23rd of June 1989. The aim of the Meeting was to gather together the people actively working on the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation, both from an experimental and from a theoretical point of view. In view of the intensive current activity in this field, including ongoing (COBE) and forthcoming (RELIC II, ISO, AELITA, etc. ) space missions, a meeting fully dedicated to this important topic was timely. The meeting also celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Microwave Background discovery made in 1964 by the Nobel Prize winners A. Penzias and R. Wilson. We greatly regret that we were not able to have them at the Meeting. There is of course another person whose absence we regret, namely R. H. Dicke, who motivated a generation of experimentalists and theoreticians to open and study this new field of research. As organizers of the Meeting, we would like to express our gratitude to the people who contributed to its success. We want to thank the members of the Scientific Organizing Committee for their assistance, suggestions and encouragement, the invited speakers for their excellent presentations, and the chairmen for their help in handling the various Sessions. We would like to thank P. Palazzi for her help in secretarial work, dr. L.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9401067791
• ISBN 13: 9789401067799
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 308
• Editor: Mandolesi N., Vittorio N.