Making contact : Jill Tarter and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence /

Making contact : Jill Tarter and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence / Sarah Scoles.

"Jill Tarter is a pioneer, an innovator, an adventurer, and a controversial force. At a time when women weren't encouraged to do much outside the home, Tarter ventured as far out as she could -- into the three-Kelvin cold of deep space. And she hasn't stopped investigating a subject t...

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Main Author: Scoles, Sarah (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Pegasus Books, 2017.
Edition:First Pegasus books edition.
Subjects:
Tarter, Jill C.
Tarter, Jill, > 1944-
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Study group : U.S.)
Extraterrestrial beings > Research.
Women astronomers > United States > Biography.
Women astronomers.
United States.
Biographies.
Biography.
Biografie.
Table of Contents:
  • How'd a nice girl like you get into a field like this?
  • Babies, brown dwarfs, and big moves
  • Making the Allen Telescope Array
  • The future of the alien-hunting telescope
  • A question for our time
  • The politics of science and new projects
  • The quest for contact
  • the last chapter
  • Extremophiles and exoplanets
  • Shouting into the void
  • A timeline of SETI.

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