A Responsibility to Awe by Rebecca Elson Forward prizes When he was awarded an

When he was awarded an honorary degree in civil law at Newcastle University in 1967

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A Responsibility to Awe by Rebecca Elson Forward prizes When he was awarded anRebecca Elson's A Responsibility to Awe reissued as a Carcanet Classic A Responsibility to Awe is a contemporary classic, a book of poems and reflections by a scientist for whom poetry was a necessary aspect of research, crucial to understanding the world and her place in it, even as, having contracted terminal cancer, she confronted her early death. Rebecca Elson was an astronomer; her work took her to the boundary of the visible and measurable.