Frank Close

Frank Close
Nascimento 24 de julho de 1945 (78 anos)
Peterborough
Cidadania Reino Unido
Alma mater
Ocupação físico, escritor de não ficção, professor universitário, cientista, físico teórico
Prêmios
Empregador(a) Universidade de Oxford
Campo(s) física
Obras destacadas End: Cosmic Catastrophe and the Fate of the Universe (Book)
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Francis Edwin Close[1] OBE (24 de julho de 1945) é um físico que leciona na Universidade de Oxford, com posição de pesquisador na Exeter College.

Autor do livro Lucifer's Legacy: The Meaning of Asymmetry, ISBN 9780198503804.[2]

Graduou-se em física na Universidade de St Andrews em 1967.

Trabalhos

Frank Close talks about The Infinity Puzzle on Bookbits radio.
  • Close, F. E. (1979). An Introduction to Quarks and Partons. London: Academic Press. ISBN 0-12-175150-3 
  • Close, Frank (1983). The Cosmic Onion: Quarks and the Nature of the Universe. London: Heinemann Educational. ISBN 0-435-69170-8 
    • rev. ed. The New Cosmic Onion: Quarks and the Nature of the Universe. London: Taylor & Francis. 2006. ISBN 1-58488-798-2 
  • Close, Frank; Michael Marten; Christine Sutton (1987). The Particle Explosion. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-851965-6 
    • rev. ed. The Particle Odyssey: A Journey to the Heart of the Matter. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2002. ISBN 0-19-850486-1 
  • Close, Frank (1988). End: Cosmic Catastrophe and the Fate of the Universe. London: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-671-65461-6  (Published in the US as Apocalypse When?)
  • Close, Frank (1990). Too Hot to Handle: The Story of the Race for Cold Fusion. London: W. H. Allen. ISBN 1-85227-206-6 
  • Close, Frank (2000). Lucifer's Legacy: The Meaning of Asymmetry. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-850380-6 
  • Close, Frank (2004). Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-280434-0 
  • Close, Frank (2007). The Void. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-922590-7 
  • Close, Frank (2009). Antimatter. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-955016-6 
  • Close, Frank (2009). Nothing: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-922586-6 
  • Close, Frank (2010). Neutrino. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-957459-6 
  • Close, Frank (2011). The Infinity Puzzle: Quantum Field Theory and the Hunt for an Orderly Universe. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-959350-7 

Ver também

Referências

  1. Who's Who
  2. http://www.nationalpost.com/related/topics/story.html?id=798217[ligação inativa]

Ligações externas

  • Frank Close at st-andrews.ac.uk
  • Frank Close at Exeter College
  • Interview in The Guardian, 1 June 2004
  • Radio 4 Museum of Curiosity 5 March 2008
  • Frank Close's page, Conville and Walsh literary agents
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