Losing the Nobel Prize : a story of cosmology, ambition, and the perils of science's highest honor /

The inside story of a quest to unlock one of cosmology's biggest mysteries, derailed by the lure of the Nobel Prize. What would it have been like to be an eyewitness to the Big Bang? In 2014, astronomers wielding BICEP2, the most powerful cosmology telescope ever made, thought they'd glimp...

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Main Author:	Keating, Brian (Brian Gregory) (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2018]
Subjects:	Big bang theory. Astronomy > Awards. Cosmology. Science > Methodology. Nobel Prizes. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs. SCIENCE / Cosmology.