Fred Hoyle
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Fred Hoyle was a British astronomer who lived from 1915 to 2001 and made significant contributions to our understanding of how stars work and how chemical elements form in the universe. His work fundamentally changed astronomy and physics by explaining processes that had previously been mysterious to scientists.
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- Frontiers of astronomy (A Signet science library book)
- The Nature of the Universe, Revised Edition
- Galaxies Nuclei and Quasars
- Frontiers of Astronomy
- Nicolaus Copernicus
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Sir Fred Hoyle (24 June 1915 – 20 August 2001) was an English astronomer. With Margaret and Geoffrey Burbidge and William Alfred Fowler, he formulated the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis in the influential BFH paper.
He held controversial views on some scientific matters — in particular, in his rejection of the "Big Bang" theory (a term he jokingly coined on BBC Radio, though he later denied doing so in derision) in favour of a "steady-state model", and his promotion of panspermia as the origin of life on Earth.