Much of the early development work for this Web site was underwritten, with much appreciation and thanks, by la Fondation Wright de Geneve, a private non-profit organization that generously funds innovative projects in science education.
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The following people at the Wright Center for Science Education contributed to this Web site: |
John Banister-Marx
Scott Battaion
Dana Berry
Eric Chaisson |
April Hobart
Miranda Read
Dara Lynn Sheehan
Leora Weinstein
Donna Young |
Thanks especially to Scott Battaion for initially assembling this multimedia product in 1996 and maintaining it through several revised versions until 2008. Thereafter and continuing to the present, this Web site has been maintained by Eric Chaisson.
Technical credits for the film, "Cosmic Origins," copyright ©2001 by, and used with permission of, the Foundation for the Future, go to:
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Jon Palfreman, producer
Kathleen Boisvert, director
Will Lyman, narrator
Dana Berry, animator |
Schwartz-Giunta, compositor
Erich Roland, cinematographer
Robert Secret, music
Eric Chaisson, science content |
Technical credits for the film, “The Arrow of Time,” copyright ©2007 by, and used with permission of, Dana Berry and Eric Chaisson, go to:
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Dana Berry, producer
Eric Chaisson, writer
Ellie Boettinger, narrator
Keith Robinson, editor
Wendy Blackstone, music
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With special thanks to:
Eric Anderson
Scott Battaion
Angela Chenyunski
Anthony Cornish
Walt Feimer
April Hobart
Jason McKinley
Ken Michaels
Frank Summers
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Authorship of the Advanced Tracks for each of the epochs along the arrow of time is solely due to Eric Chaisson, and is based on an ongoing research program that attempts to quantify the scenario of cosmic evolution (cf., http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~ejchaisson).
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This Web site, version 7, derives from an earlier textbook, Universe: An Evolutionary Approach to Astronomy by Eric Chaisson, originally published in 1988 by Prentice Hall and now revised, updated, expanded, and rewritten for this presentation in cyberspace, and from Chaisson's trade book, Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos, 2006, Columbia University Press. The Advanced Track on the navigation bar at left, which includes separate PDF files for each epoch of this Web site, is based partly on his more advanced book on the same topic, Cosmic Evolution: The Rise of Complexity in Nature, 2001, Harvard University Press; these PDF Advanced Tracks are updated every few months. The contents of this Web site comprise the distilled essence of a course taught mostly at Harvard University for the past 35 years.
© 2013, Eric J. Chaisson. All rights reserved.
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