Richard N Boyd
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Where were the amino acids, the molecules of life, created: perhaps in a lightning storm in the early Earth, or perhaps elsewhere in the cosmos? This book argues that at least some of them must have been produced in the cosmos, and that the fact that the Earthly amino acids have a specific handedness provides an important clue for that explanation. The book discusses several models that purport to explain the handedness, ultimately proposing a new...
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"In An Introduction to Nuclear Astrophysics, Richard N. Boyd includes basic nomenclature and information so that students from astronomy or physics can quickly orient themselves. Subsequent chapters describe earthbound and spaceborne instruments operating in service to nuclear astrophysics worldwide; background topics such as nuclear and neutrino physics, scattering formalism, and thermonuclear reaction rates; and information on galactic chemical...