Richard N. Boyd

Nuclear astrophysics background -- The instruments used to study astrophysics -- Nuclear basics of nuclear astrophysics -- Stellar basics of nuclear astrophysics -- Hydrogen burning -- Advanced stellar evolution, supernovae, and gamma-ray bursters -- Production of the abundant heavy nuclides -- Nucleosynthesis on the proton-rich side of stability, X-ray bursts, and magnetars -- The beginning of the universe.

An Introduction to Nuclear Astrophysics

This volume posits that not all amino acids originated on Earth, giving a detailed assessment of their ‘handedness’, a critical element in understanding their origin. Written in an accessible style, it discusses a number of models explaining handedness.

Richard N. Boyd

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