A lucid introduction for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, and an authoritative overview for researchers and professional scientists.

The term “chemical evolution of galaxies” refers to the evolution of abundances of chemical species in galaxies, which is due to nuclear processes occurring

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A lucid, wide-ranging graduate textbook on the topical subject of galactic chemical evolution - by a pioneer of the field.

This review of the most up-to-date observational and theoretical information concerning the chemical evolution of the Milky Way compares the abundances derived