Description: An engrossing tale of two decades of adventure in exotic and dangerous climes, where Smoot and his colleagues used radiotelescopes in search of the biggest and oldest objects anywhere--the "seeds" that spawned our universe following the Big Bang. Photos and illustrations.
Brief description:
Winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics, George Smoot has been an astrophysicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory since 1974 and has been a physics professor at University of California-Berkeley since 1994. He lives in Berkeley, California.
Review Quotes:
"One of the most exhilarating and absorbing books ever written about science. . . . An adventure story of a rare kind, a classic." - New Scientist
"Remarkable. . . . A rare glimpse of important science in the making and a rollicking adventure yarn all rolled into one. Wrinkles in Time breaths life and romance into science." - New York Times Book Review
"One of the best, most understandable primers on the history and current state of cosmology available." - Seattle Times
"Fast paced, lucid. . . . High adventure. . . . A splendid history of the universe." - Los Angeles Times
"Impressive. . . . Long-awaited. . . . The reader needs bring nothing to the book but curiosity." - Washington Post Book World
"George Smoot's Wrinkles in Time has got to be one of the best books I've ever read. Smoot, who got the Nobel Prize in physics in 2006, is the Indiana Jones of physics: a physicist who flies all over the world to do science." - Amir D. Aczel, Toronto Globe and Mail