Abstract
1. Prologue. 2. The lure of number. 3. Thirty years of the new astronomy. 4. Hubble's law, the cosmological distance ladder and the Big Bang. 5. The years of building IRAS. 6. First view of the far infrared sky. 7. Discovering the power of IRAS. 8. The microwave background story. 9. The IRAS dipole and the 'death' of the Great Attractor. 10. Crisis for cold dark matter?. 11. From quasars to ultraluminous starburst galaxies. 12. The cosmic ripples, their impact and meaning. 13. The scientific vision.
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