Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Tolman, Richard Chace

  • Reference work entry
  • First Online:
Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 1,099.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book
USD 549.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Selected References

  • Gale, George and John Urani (1999). “Milne, Bondi and the ‘Second Way’ to Cosmology.” In The Expanding Worlds of General Relativity, edited by Hubert Goenner et al., pp. 343–375. Boston: Birkhauser. (Describes Tolman’s views about philosophy and cosmology.)

    Google Scholar 

  • Hubble, Edwin and Richard, C. Tolman (1935). “Two Methods of Investigating the Nature of the Nebular Red-Shift.” Astrophysical Journal 82: 302–337.

    Article  ADS  MATH  Google Scholar 

  • Kirkwood, John G., Oliver R. Wulf, and P. S. Epstein (1952). “Richard Chace Tolman.” Biographical Memoirs, National Academy of Sciences 27: 139–153.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kragh, Helge (1996). Cosmology and Controversy:The Historical Development of Two Theories of the Universe. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. (This is the best general source on modern cosmology.)

    Google Scholar 

  • North, John David (1994). The Norton History of Astronomy and Cosmology. New York: W. W. Norton.

    MATH  Google Scholar 

  • Tolman, Richard C. (1932). “Models of the Physical Universe.” Science 75: 367–373.

    Article  ADS  MATH  Google Scholar 

  • — (1934). Relativity, Thermodynamics and Cosmology. Oxford Clarendon Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • — (1938). The Principles of Statistical Mechanics. Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Reprint, New York: Dover, 1987.)

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. University of Misourri, Columbia, MO, USA

    George Gale

Authors
  1. George Gale
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to George Gale .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Earth Science, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, USA

    Thomas Hockey

  2. University of California, Irvine School of Physical Sciences, Irvine, CA, USA

    Virginia Trimble

  3. Rice University, Houston, TX, USA

    Thomas R. Williams

  4. Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, USA

    Katherine Bracher

  5. York Univesity, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Richard A. Jarrell

  6. University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

    Jordan D. Marché II

  7. University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

    JoAnn Palmeri

  8. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Daniel W. E. Green

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2014 Springer Science+Business Media New York

About this entry

Cite this entry

Gale, G. (2014). Tolman, Richard Chace. In: Hockey, T., et al. Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_1388

Download citation

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation