The Star that Changes the View

Name: The Star that Changes the View
Brand: Michael Webster
Price: 42.99 AUD

Beatrice Tinsley

By: Michael Webster

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Paperback | 18 November 2025

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164 Pages

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21.6 x 14.0 x 0.96

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In the history of science, there are heroes whose battle is fought not just against the unknown, but against the establishment itself.

Beatrice Tinsley, born in New Zealand, was the visionary who revolutionized cosmology. In the 1970s, while the scientific world viewed the universe as static, Tinsley, an unpaid researcher and young mother, proved with devastating mathematical rigor that galaxies are not constant beacons but living, aging entities.

Her breakthrough-the "evolutionary correction"-provided the indispensable tool that fixed the greatest paradoxes of her time, allowing humanity to finally calculate the true age and fate of the cosmos.

This comprehensive biography charts Tinsley's intense life: the foundational years in Aotearoa, the intellectual isolation in Texas, the painful decision to choose career over family, and the ultimate triumph as a full professor at Yale. Her story is a searing look at the genius that flourished despite a rigid, gendered academic structure, and the tenacity of a mind that worked until its final, tragic moment at age forty.

Discover the scientist whose fundamental work underpins every modern deep-space discovery and whose sacrifice illuminated the true, dynamic nature of the universe. Approx.164 pages, 28100 word count

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