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to the general public". His literary style and narrative talents allowed for easy reading of what were otherwise heady and intellectual topics, bringing sometimes abstract scientific ideas to a level the common person could understand.
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books. His literary style and narrative talents allowed for easy reading of what were otherwise heady and intellectual topics, bringing sometimes abstract scientific ideas to a level the common person could understand.
119:(1939–August 28, 2003) was an American author, editor, and poet. He published more than 20 books in his lifetime, many of which were written to "explain the intricacies of 159:
In 1968, he established and became the executive director of the Committee of Small Magazine Editors and Publishers (COSMEP). It was an attempt to organize the energy of the
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Beginning in 1979, Morris became known to the wider world as the author of a series of mainstream
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Cosmic Questions: Galactic Halos, Cold Dark Matter and the End of Time (Wiley Popular Science)
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and the controversies surrounding it through history had become his interest later in life.
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The Universe, the Eleventh Dimension, and Everything: What We Know and How We Know It
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The Edges of Science: Crossing the Boundary from Physics to Metaphysics
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Carmen J. Giunta, "Book review: Richard Morris: The Last Sorcerers",
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Achilles in the Quantum Universe: the Definitive History of Infinity
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The Last Sorcerers: The Path from Alchemy to the Periodic Table
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The Last Sorcerers: The Path from Alchemy to the Periodic Table
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The Big Questions: Probing the Promise and Limits of Science
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Dismantling the Universe: The Nature of Scientific Discovery
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Richard Morris (disambiguation)
Richard Ward Morris
University of New Mexico
University of Nevada, Reno
science
MS
physics
University of New Mexico
University of Nevada, Reno
San Francisco
small presses
underground press
Vietnam War
Ronald Reagan
science
poetry
fiction
drama
evolution
"Richard Morris, PhD"
"Peer Review"
The Last Sorcerers
doi
10.17226/10722
ISBN
978-0-309-09507-5
"Review: Cosmic Questions"
"Review: Achilles in the Quantum Universe"
Categories
1939 births

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