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ISBN 10: 1402032935 
ISBN 13: 9781402032936
Author: Alv Egeland, William J Burke

At 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 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, he yearned to celebrate his 50th birthday in Norway. The only safe passage home, via the Far East, brought him to Tokyo, where he passed away in the late spring of 1917.

Kristian Birkeland The First Space Scientist 1st Table of contents:

1. Introduction: Tempora Mutant Et Nos Cum Illis Mutamur

2. Background and Education

3. At the 19th Century's End

4. A New Abel

5. Geomagnetic and Solar System Research

6. Aurora in a Vacuum Chamber

7. The Norwegian Auroral Expeditions

8. The Universe in a Vacuum Chamber

9. Technology and Applied Physics

10. Fast Switches and Electromagnetic Cannons

11. In as Little as Four Years

12. Birkeland the Man

13. As Seen in His Own Time

14. Consummatus in Brevi, Explevit Tempora Multa

15. Birkeland's Heritage

16. From Small Acorns

17. In Memoriam

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