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024	7		_a10.1007/1-4020-3294-3 _2doi
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100	1		_aEgeland, Alv. _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aKristian Birkeland _h[electronic resource] : _bThe First Space Scientist / _cby Alv Egeland, William J. Burke.
264		1	_aDordrecht : _bSpringer Netherlands, _c2005.
300			_aIX, 221 p. _bonline resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_atext file _bPDF _2rda
490	1		_aAstrophysics and Space Science Library ; _v325
505	0		_aBackground and Education -- At the 19th Century's End -- A New Abel -- Introduction: Tempora Mutant Et Nos Cum Illis Mutamur -- Geomagnetic and Solar System Research -- Aurora in a Vacuum Chamber -- The Norwegian Auroral Expeditions -- The Universe in a Vacuum Chamber -- Technology and Applied Physics -- Fast Switches and Electromagnetic Cannons -- In as Little as Four Years -- Birkeland the Man -- As Seen in his Own Time -- Consummatus in Brevi, Explevit Tempora Multa -- Birkeland's Heritage -- From Small Acorns -- In Memoriam.
520			_aAt the beginning of the 20th century Kristian Birkeland (1867-1917), a Norwegian scientist of insatiable curiosity, addressed questions that had vexed European scientists for centuries. Why do the northern lights appear overhead when the Earth's magnetic field is disturbed? How are magnetic storms connected to disturbances on the Sun? To answer these questions Birkeland interpreted his advance laboratory simulations and daring campaigns in the Arctic wilderness in the light of Maxwell's newly discovered laws of electricity and magnetism. Birkeland's ideas were dismissed for decades, only to be vindicated when satellites could fly above the Earth's atmosphere. Faced with the depleting stocks of Chilean saltpeter and the consequent prospect of mass starvation, Birkeland showed his practical side, inventing the first industrial scale method to extract nitrogen-based fertilizers from the air. Norsk Hydro, one of modern Norway's largest industries, stands as a living tribute to his genius. Hoping to demonstrate what we now call the solar wind, Birkeland moved to Egypt in 1913. Isolated from his friends by the Great War, Birkeland yearned to celebrate his 50th birthday in Norway. The only safe passage home, via the Far East, brought him to Tokyo where in the late spring of 1917 he passed away.
650		0	_aPHYSICS.
650		0	_aASTRONOMY.
650		0	_aHISTORY.
650	1	4	_aPHYSICS.
650	2	4	_aASTRONOMY, ASTROPHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY.
650	2	4	_aHISTORY.
650	2	4	_aPOPULAR SCIENCE IN ASTRONOMY.
700	1		_aBurke, William J. _eauthor.
710	2		_aSpringerLink (Online service)
773	0		_tSpringer eBooks
776	0	8	_iPrinted edition: _z9781402032936
830		0	_aAstrophysics and Space Science Library ; _v325
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3294-3 _zVer el texto completo en las instalaciones del CICY
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