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Tucker, Wallace Hampton was born on November 4, 1939 in McAlester, Oklahoma, United States. Son of Charles Brown and Josephing E. (Wilkinson) Tucker.
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( Beyond the range of optical perception--and of ordinar...)
Beyond the range of optical perception--and of ordinary imaginings--a new and violent universe lay undetected until the advent of space exploration. Supernovae, black holes, quasars and pulsars--these were the secrets of the highenergy world revealed when, for the first time, astronomers attached their instruments to rockets and lofted them beyond the earth's x-ray-absorbing atmosphere. The X-Ray Universe is the story of these explorations and the fantastic new science they brought into being. It is a first-hand account: Riccardo Giacconi is one of the principal pioneers of the field, and Wallace Tucker is a theorist who worked closely with him at many critical periods. The book carries the reader from the early days of the Naval Research Laboratory through the era of V-2 rocketry, Sputnik, and the birth of NASA, to the launching of the Einstein X-Ray Observatory. But this is by no means just a history. Behind the suspenseful, sometimes humorous details of human personality grappling with high technology lies a sophisticated exposition of current cosmology and astrophysics, from the rise and fall of the steady-state theory to the search for the missing mass of the universe.
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When the first X-ray detectors revealed many places in the universe that are too hot to be seen by optical and radio telescopes, pioneering X-ray astronomers realized they were onto something big. They knew that a large X-ray observatory must be created if they were ever to understand such astonishing phenomena as neutron stars, supernovas, black holes, and dark matter. What they could not know was how monumental in time, money, and effort this undertaking would be. Revealing the Universe tells the story of the Chandra X-ray Observatory. From the first proposal for a large X-ray telescope in 1970 to the deployment of Chandra by the Space Shuttle Columbia in 1999, this book chronicles the technical feats, political struggles, and personal dramas that transformed an inspired vision into the world's supreme X-ray observatory. With an insider's knowledge and a storyteller's instincts, Wallace and Karen Tucker describe the immense challenges that this project posed for such high-tech industry giants as TRW, Eastman Kodak, and Hughes Danbury Optical Systems (now Raytheon Optical Systems). Their portrayal of the role of NASA is itself an extraordinary case study of multibillion-dollar government decisionmaking, and a cautionary tale for future large space astronomy missions. Revealing the Universe is primarily the story of the men and women whose discoveries, skills, failures, and successes made the Chandra X-ray Observatory possible.
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On July 23, 1999, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the most powerful X-ray telescope ever built, was launched aboard the space shuttle Columbia. Since then, Chandra has given us a view of the universe that is largely hidden from telescopes sensitive only to visible light. In Chandra's Cosmos, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Chandra science spokesperson Wallace H. Tucker uses a series of short, connected stories to describe the telescope's exploration of the hot, high-energy face of the universe. The book is organized in three parts: "The Big," covering the cosmic web, dark energy, dark matter, and massive clusters of galaxies; "The Bad," exploring neutron stars, stellar black holes, and supermassive black holes; and "The Beautiful," discussing stars, exoplanets, and life. Chandra has imaged the spectacular, glowing remains of exploded stars and taken spectra showing the dispersal of their elements. Chandra has observed the region around the supermassive black hole in the center of our Milky Way and traced the separation of dark matter from normal matter in the collision of galaxies, contributing to both dark matter and dark energy studies. Tucker explores the implications of these observations in an entertaining, informative narrative aimed at space buffs and general readers alike.
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Tucker, Wallace Hampton was born on November 4, 1939 in McAlester, Oklahoma, United States. Son of Charles Brown and Josephing E. (Wilkinson) Tucker.
Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, U. Oklahoma, 1961; Master of Science in Physics, U. Oklahoma, 1962; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego, 1966.
Research associate, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1966-1967; assistant professor astrophysics, Rice U., Houston, 1967-1969; senior staff scientist, American Science and Engineering, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1969-1972; astrophysicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Observatory, Cambridge, since 1976; visiting professor, University of California, Irvine, 1980-1989; research physcist, University of California, San Diego, since 1989.
( When the first X-ray detectors revealed many places in...)
( Beyond the range of optical perception--and of ordinar...)
(On July 23, 1999, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the most...)
(This book was digitized and reprinted from the collection...)
Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Astronomical Society, International Astronomical Union.
Married Karen Allen Slagle, June 21, 1957. Children: Kerry, Stuart.
