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Language: English
Published by Viking / Penguin, 2002
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- Title
- A Matter of Degrees: What Temperature Reveals About the Past and Future of Our Species, Planet, and Universe
- Author
- Segre, Gino
- Publisher
- Viking / Penguin
- Publication year
- 2002
- Condition
- good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0670031011
- ISBN 13
- 9780670031016
Theorizes that temperature is the most revealing method of measurement, considering such topics as the fixed internal temperature of most mammals, the significance of hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor, and the problem of superconductivity in quantum physics. 25,000 first printing.
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About the Author
Gino Segrè is professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania. An internationally renowned expert in high-energy elementary-particle theoretical physics, Segrè has served as director of Theoretical Physics at the National Science Foundation and received awards from the National Science Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation. This is his first book.
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