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INDEX

*The following items may be used as a guide to search for information in this eBook.

A

ABC of Relativity, The (Russell)

adenosine triphosphate (ATP)

Agassiz, Louis

Agassiz’s theory

Ager, Derek V.

Aharanov, Yakir

AIDS; HIV virus

albedo (reflectiveness)

alchemy

All Species Foundation

Alpha Centauri

aluminum

Alvarez, Walter and Luis

America (New World): Ashfall Fossil Beds, Nebraska; asteroid craters; Buffon’s assertion of inferiority of; dinosaur bones, tracks, locations; dinosaurs, discovery of; human-caused extinctions; as land of opportunity; Lewis and Clark expedition; mammoth bones in; Sierra Nevada mountains; volcanoes

American Museum of Natural History

American Ornithology (Peale)

amino acids

Anderson, Ray

anesthesia

animal world: categories; unknown or new species. See also extinction of species; life; specific places and species

Annals of the Old Testament (Ussher)

Anning, Mary

Antarctica: collapse of West, ice sheet; crab-eater seals; penguins; planet’s ice, percentage of; Weddel seals

anthrax

Anthropologist on Mars, An (Sacks)

antibiotics

Antic Hay (Huxley)

Arambourg, Camille

archaebacteria

Armageddon (film)

Armstrong, Richard

Asaro, Frank

Ashcroft, Frances

Asimov, Isaac

asteroids; Chicxulub crater; close passes of Earth; cratering rates, Moon; crater research; detection; devastation of impact; discovery of; extinctions and; identifying; iridium; Manson, Iowa. See also meteorite

astronomy: constant; cosmological constant; interpretation in; parsec; red shift. See also Einstein, Albert; Hubble, Erwin; solar system; stars; universe; specific astronomers

Atkins, P. W.

atmosphere; balloon ascents; carbon dioxide in; clouds; convection and; Coriolis effect; Death Zone; early; Earth’s rotation and; Hadley cells; higher elevations, mountaineers, health effects; jet streams; layers, names; limit of human tolerance; oxygen in; ozone in; space ship reentry; Sun, heat from; sunlight and; temperature, upper atmosphere; tropopause; turbulence in; warm air, and moisture; weight of air. See also weather

atom; Avogadro’s Principle; behavior of; bombs and; chemical identity, protons and; durability of; existence of; fission; half-life; image, created by Nagaoka; isotope; matrix mechanics; quantum leap; quantum mechanics; size and weight of; strong nuclear force and weak nuclear force; structure of; thermodynamics and; Uncertainty Principle; wave mechanics

Attenborough, David

Australia: ANU, Canberra, rock dating at; human-caused extinctions; human skeletons, early, found at Mungo; orange roughy, depletion of; sea life, lack of; Shark Bay, stromatolites at

Avery, Oswald

Avogadro, Lorenzo

Avogardro’s Principle

B

Baade, Walter