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| | Fred Hoyle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Hoyle appeared in a series of radio talks on astronomy for the BBC in the 1950s; these were collected in the book The Nature of the Universe, and he went on to write a number of other popular science books. | | | Several interviewees testify to Hoyle's influence in popularizing astronomy and cosmology. | | | Chandra Wickramasinghe, A Journey with Fred Hoyle: The Search for Cosmic Life, World Scientific Publishing, 2005, ISBN 9812389121 |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hoyle
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| | Cardiff Centre for Astrobiology; Fred Hoyle; researching panspermia and the origins of life |
| | Fred himself was unable to see the final form of this paper although he was a co-author and mentor of this work. | | | Fred's contributions to astronomy are monumental and far-reaching. | | | In 1962 Fred Hoyle and I sought to understand the nature of cosmic dust, those gigantic clouds of obscuring matter that could be seen in photographs of the Milky Way. |
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http://www.astrobiology.cf.ac.uk/fredhoyle.html
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| | Reason: Volatile Stardust: The fertile mind of astronomer Fred Hoyle by Kenneth Silber |
| | Hoyle depicted the presumed origin of life from nonliving matter on the primordial Earth as being as implausible as the assembly of a functional jetliner by a tornado whirling through a junkyard. | | | Partly this was because of Hoyle himself; his role as prominent science explainer was similar to that later played by the astronomer Carl Sagan. | | | Reviewing one of Hoyle and Wickramasinghe’s life-from-space books, the Oxford chemist Peter Atkins said it was “not worth the paper it is written on.” Further controversy ensued over the authenticity of the Natural History Museum’s celebrated fossil specimen of archaeopteryx, a transitional species between dinosaurs and birds. |
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http://www.reason.com/0603/cr.ks.volatile.shtml
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| | The Intelligent Universe. (Fred Hoyle). |
| | Fred Hoyle was an important scientist who worked at the frontiers of astronomy and theoretical physics. | | | Hoyle himself thinks cosmic genes are selected by the environment of the Earth. | | | Hoyle's motivation for writing this book is a protest against 'nihilistic philosophy'. |
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http://home.wxs.nl/~gkorthof/kortho47.htm
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| | Fred Hoyle News |
| | Fred Hoyle was a down-to-earth, argumentative Yorkshireman who became the voice of British astronomy. | | | These developments prompt Hoyle and the author to postulate the organic theory of cosmic dust (which is now generally accepted), and then to challenge one of the most cherished paradigms of contemporary science — the theory that life originated on Earth in a warm primordial soup. | | | "Fred Hoyle was a towering figure in 20th century astronomy and cosmology, and one of the most successful scientific communicators of his time. |
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http://www.hoyle.org.uk/news.html
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| | Fred Hoyle |
| | Hoyle’s failures should not be damning, for he was a man who followed ideas wherever they led him. | | | (In Hoyle’s defense, it must be said that there is no really convincing account of the origin of life on Earth.) This theory was in line with his well-accepted work on nucleogenesis. | | | Prevailing wisdom held that the sun was composed mainly of iron. |
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http://www.goodbyemag.com/jul01/hoyle.html
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| | Professor Sir Fred Hoyle [obituary] [Free Republic] |
| | Hoyle himself denied writing anything objectionable, but conceded: "We may have included a few mild sarcasms." The most puzzling aspect of these disputes was that Hoyle made many genuine and significant contributions to physics and astronomy. | | | Ah, speaking of wigged-out pronouncements on scientific topics he wasn't too familiar with: Hoyle wrote the infamously wrongheaded "tornado in a junkyard spontaneously building a 747" analogy to the origin of life. | | | The plot closely mirrored Hoyle's contempt for politicians and his ideas about a cosmic super-intelligence. |
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http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b830c515b83.htm
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| | Physics Today November 2001 |
| | He will be remembered with fond gratitude not only by colleagues and students, but by a much wider community who knew him through his talks and writings. | | | As a result, for the first time, UK astronomers had guaranteed access to a world-class optical telescope. | | | He found himself working with Hermann Bondi and Thomas Gold; in spare moments the trio discussed astronomy. |
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http://www.physicstoday.org/pt/vol-54/iss-11/p75b.html
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| | The Scientific Legacy of Fred Hoyle - Cambridge University Press |
| | Fred Hoyle’s major work in the context of astronomy and astrophysics today W. Sargent; 2. | | | With contributions by leading astronomers, the book concentrates on Hoyle’s scientific legacy, and examines the influence his research has had on others and on advances in astronomy and cosmology. | | | This book is based on a meeting that was held in Cambridge, where Hoyle was based for three decades, and contains chapters by many of Hoyle’s scientific collaborators. |
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http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521824486
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| | Nat' Academies Press, Conflict in the Cosmos: Fred Hoyle's Life in Science (2005) |
| | Fred Hoyle’s broadcasts and books influenced many of us who were drawn into astronomy. | | | Later, they visited another man who had a microscope, so Fred could see what small objects looked like under magnification.17 About this time, Fred Hoyle began the interest in chemistry that would stay with him throughout his life. | | | This was not a mere summary of accepted theory, but his own views on what might have happened. |
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http://www.nap.edu/books/0309093139/html/1.html
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| | The Bruce Medalists: Fred Hoyle |
| | Hoyle was also the proponent of the equally unpopular idea that life came to earth from elsewhere. | | | In the late 1930s he worked with Ray Littleton on stellar evolution and the accretion of interstellar matter onto stars. | | | Maddox, John, “The Hoyle Story,” Nature 417, 603-04 (2002). |
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http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/BruceMedalists/Hoyle/Hoyle.html
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| | Amazon.com: Conflict in the Cosmos: Fred Hoyle's Life in Science: Books: Simon Mitton |
| | Hoyle himself might have lost his chance for a Nobel himself, and as Mitton hints he might very well have had a chance to win it in 1983, had not his intemperate remarks put his hopes in purdah. | | | Hoyle played an important role in the popularization of astronomy through radio, science books and even science fiction novels, which, according to astronomer Minton, drew many future prominent astronomers to the field. | | | We see Hoyle as a man with irrational bursts of confidence and indeed over-confidence, with sort of a big mouth that got him into trouble now and again. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0309093139?v=glance
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| | One of the most memorable books that I ever read was "The Nature of the Universe" by Fred Hoyle, which I regarded as being both a literary and scientific masterpiece. | | | This work, in a sense, may be seen as marking the first steps in understanding our chain of cosmic descent. | | | I had read his sci fi novel "Black Cloud" in which a sentient cloud of cosmic dust threatened to invade and take control of planet earth. |
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http://www.dailynews.lk/2005/06/09/fea01.htm
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| | Fred Hoyle |
| | He did a series of radio talks on astronomy for the BBC in the 1950s; these were collected in the book "The Nature of the Universe", and he went on to write a number of other popular science books. | | | Continuous creation offered no explanation for the appearance of new matter, but in itself was no more inexplicable than the appearance of the entire universe from nothing; in the end the discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation led to the nearly unanimous acceptance by astronomers (Hoyle being one exception) of the Big Bang theory. | | | An early paper of his made an interesting use of the Anthropic Principle. |
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http://www.ebroadcast.com.au/lookup/encyclopedia/fr/Fred_Hoyle.html
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| | Universe Today - Book Review: Conflict in the Cosmos, Fred Hoyle's Life in Science |
| | He shows how Fred Hoyle, being in theoretical astronomy, often came to grips with observational astronomers. | | | His work as a theoretical astronomer and science communicator captured the imaginations of people. | | | Emotions are free to everyone, perhaps reading this will entice you on your own search for understanding. |
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http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/book_review_conflict_cosmos.html?372005
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| | Sir Fred Hoyle |
| | Interview: Sir Martin Rees discusses the death of astrophysicist Sir Fred Hoyle | | | 'Big Bang' astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle dies at 86. | | | Around Wales: Cardiff - Astronomy stars come out to pay tribute to Sir Fred Hoyle.(News) |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0909722.html
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| | Dani Zweig's Belated Reviews #28: Fred Hoyle |
| | Most of Hoyle's sf was written in the fifties and early sixties. | | | (There's no 'relatively' in the case of "Fifth Planet", coauthored with Geoffrey Hoyle.) For that matter, none of his books read as well today as they did, but the best of them should appeal to readers who enjoy hard sf with squishy centers. | | | Hoyle's also written other books, which I'd rate as relatively weak. |
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http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~susan/sf/dani/028.htm
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| | Guardian Unlimited Obituaries Professor Sir Fred Hoyle |
| | Until the discovery of the cosmic microwave background in 1965, the observational evidence was inconclusive and the emotive feelings aroused led to one of the bitterest scientific divisions of the century. | | | Hoyle returned to Cambridge after the war as university lecturer in mathematics. | | | Fred Hoyle, who has died aged 86, will be remembered as one of the most distinguished and controversial scientists of the 20th century. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,540961,00.html
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| | Fred Hoyle - EvoWiki |
| | To ornithologists he is mainly known as the primary author of an absurd and speculative flight-of-fancy (no pun intended) on why the fossils of Archaeopteryx are forgeries, that appeared in 1986. | | | Hoyle's allegations were most extensively refuted by the late Alan Charig and his colleagues at the British Museum of Natural History. | | | Since all science besides cosmology points to a finite history of the Earth and the solar system, he tried to adjust biology and paleontology to his worldview. |
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http://wiki.cotch.net/index.php/Fred_Hoyle
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| | New Scientist The Scientific Legacy of Fred Hoyle ed: Douglas Gough - Books |
| | With a foreword by Astronomer Royal Martin Rees, The Scientific Legacy of Fred Hoyle covers the remarkable range of interests of the man who coined the name "big bang" - from cosmology to element synthesis, from interstellar matter to stellar evolution, from galaxy formation to the possible cosmic origin of life. | | | FRED HOYLE was, without doubt, the most influential British physicist of the post-war era. | | | These and other topics are reviewed by a group of Hoyle's long-time colleagues, friends and admirers who gathered in Cambridge in 2002 to celebrate and review his scientific life. |
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http://www.newscientist.com/channel/fundamentals/mg18624942.400
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| | MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Sir Fred Hoyle |
| | MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Sir Fred Hoyle | | | English astronomer and mathematician Sir Fred Hoyle predicted the existence of quasars. | | | Hoyle proposed an alternate version of the steady-state theory explanation, which suggested that the density of the expanding universe remained constant as new matter was slowly created. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/media_461542317/Sir_Fred_Hoyle.html
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| | ScienceQuest - Sir Fred Hoyle |
| | The term "big bang" was first used by the famous british astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle. | | | This well-known astronomer recently died at the age of 86. | | | In the year 2000, Sir Fred Hoyle and some of his colleagues published a book which supports the theory he first proposed in the 1940's; that the universe has an infinite age, and an infinite extent in space. |
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http://www.swscience.org/sq/sq_fred_hoyle.html
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| | BBC News SCI/TECH 'Big bang' astronomer dies |
| | Published in 1957, it described an intelligent cloud of cosmic dust sapping the Sun of solar energy to create a second Ice Age on Earth. | | | Sir Fred used this theory as the inspiration for one of his many science-fiction novels, The Black Cloud. | | | Sir Fred founded the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge, where he was Plumian Professor of Astronomy from 1958 until 1972. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1503721.stm
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| | EvC Forum: mihkel4397: Fred Hoyle's calculation of probability of abiogenesis |
| | Scientific findings stand or fall on their own, not on the so-called "authority" of the person making the claim. | | | But when you come right down to it, degrees don't matter; years of experience don't matter; subjects studied don't matter (although they all can be useful indicators). | | | The late Fred Hoyle stated that this sudden emergence of life was as likely as a tornado ripping through a junkyard would produce a perfect jetliner. |
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http://www.evcforum.net/cgi-bin/dm.cgi?action=msg&f=13&t=66&m=1
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| | The Daily Mail (London, England): Fred Hoyle, star of astronomy, is dead.@ HighBeam Research |
| | The Daily Mail (London, England): Fred Hoyle, star of astronomy, is dead.@ HighBeam Research | | | Professor Hoyle was in his day Britain's best known astronomer and also wrote science... | | | This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. |
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http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:77450147&refid=ip_almanac_hf
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| | Scientist of the Month |
| | Hoyle's work on stars brought him recognition and when the war was over he returned to Cambridge as professor of astronomy and mathematics. | | | Fred Hoyle was born in 1915 in Yorkshire and studied mathematics and astronomy at Cambridge University. | | | This was backed up by the observations of Edwin Hubble in the 1920s. |
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http://www.longman.co.uk/tt_secsci/resources/scimon/hoyle/hoyle.htm
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| | Fred Hoyle -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia |
| | Hoyle was also known for his groundbreaking work with William Fowler on the origin of stars and the formulation of the elements. | | | More controversial was Hoyle's belief that life on Earth… |
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http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article-9311746?tocId=9311746&query=west
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| | Wired News: Big Bang Debunker Hoyle Dies |
| | He is survived by his wife, a son and a daughter. | | | Fowler, in his autobiography for the prize, credited Hoyle as one of the great influences in his life. | | | "Every cluster of galaxies, every star, every atom had a beginning, but the universe itself did not," said Hoyle, who graduated from Cambridge University and was professor of astronomy there from 1958 to 1972. |
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http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,46223,00.html
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| | Fred Hoyle |
| | Hoyle also proposed that the earliest forms of life were carried through space on comets and that these primitive forms of life found their way to Earth. | | | In 1946, Hoyle proposed that the Sun was initially a binary star. | | | A perfectly timeless universe is pictured in his outstanding sci-fi novel October the First Is Too Late (1966). |
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http://www.natur.cuni.cz/~vpetr/Hoyle.htm
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| | Sir Fred Hoyle (1915-2001) - SFWA News |
| | An astronomy lecturer at Cambridge University, he also wrote science fiction novels under his own name. | | | One of the best known astronomers of his generation, Hoyle championed the "steady state" theory of the universe which maintained that the cosmos had no beginning. | | | He wrote Fifth Planet, Seven Steps to the Sun and several other novels with his son Geoffrey Hoyle, and A for Andromeda with John Elliot. |
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http://www.sfwa.org/News/hoyle.htm
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| | Cardiff Centre for Astrobiology; researching panspermia and the origins of life; fred hoyle; historical background |
| | As early as 1980 Sir Fred Hoyle delivered a University lecture at the Sherman Theatre in Cardiff with the title "The relation of biology to astronomy" (University College Cardiff Press, 1980) and in the concluding remarks stated:....Microbiology may be said to have had its beginnings in the nineteen-forties. | | | In fact one could say that Hoyle and Wickramasinghe forged a marriage between astronomy and biology at a time when such a union was thought to be impossible. | | | A survey of these ideas is published in Hoyle & Wickramasinghe Astronomical Origins of Life (Kluwer Academic Press, 2000). |
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http://www.astrobiology.cf.ac.uk/aimsA.html
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| | Fred Hoyle in ZhurnalWiki |
| | He was an inventive and engaging astronomer who had written a science-fiction novel and had garnered considerable press coverage of his Steady State theory of the cosmos. | | | Hoyle postulated a Perfect Cosmological Principle: not only are we not in a special place, we're also not in a special time --- so everything should look pretty much the same regardless of both where and when one is living. | | | Extending that, the Cosmological Principle argues that the universe looks the same in all directions (averaging out clusters of galaxies). |
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http://zhurnal.net/ww/zw?FredHoyle
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| | An Interview with Fred Hoyle, July 5, 1996. by Brig Klyce |
| | She was Nicola Hoyle, the youngest of his four granddaughters. | | | Mixing occurred in the grandchildren, which is perhaps why the relation between children and their grandparents is so clearly different from the relation with their immediate parents. | | | 22 Jun 2005: Two new books about Fred Hoyle are available. |
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http://www.panspermia.org/hoylintv.htm
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| | Physics.org - Search Results |
| | A fairly extensive piece on Fred Hoyle from the American Philosophical Society. |
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http://www.physics.org/results/search.asp?q=hoyle&uu=0
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| | NPR : Sir Fred Hoyle |
| | All Things Considered, August 22, 2001 · Linda Wertheimer talks to professor Sir Martin Rees of Cambridge University about fellow astrophysicist Sir Fred Hoyle, who died this week at age 86. | | | Rees calls Hoyle the outstanding astrophysicist of the second half of the 20th century. |
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1127790
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| | SpaceRef - Astrobiology and Life Science - Panspermia |
| | Hoyle and Wickramasinghe believe that organisms are delivered to planets (including Earth) from space on a daily basis and that many human diseases may be caused by bacteria from outer space. | | | Abstract of a 1999 paper written by John Gribbin,Astronomy Centre, University of Sussex. | | | Panspermia Theory according to Hoyle and Wickramasinghe - This page details the theories of Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe. |
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http://www.spaceref.com/Directory/Astrobiology_and_Life_Science/panspermia
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| | Sir Fred Hoyle & Stuart Kingsley |
| | Stuart Kingsley visiting with Sir Fred Hoyle on June 14, 2000, at the Highcliff Hotel, Bournemouth, Dorset, England. | | | See SPIE's OSETI III program for details about his co-authored keynote paper which will be presented by his former student, Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe. | | | Professor Hoyle retired to Bournemouth in the late 80's. |
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http://www.coseti.org/hoyle_1.htm
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| | Fred Hoyle - playwright |
| | Doollee aims to list every play written or produced in English since 1956. | | | You will be shown all Plays in print by Fred Hoyle. | | | Fred Hoyle : Click on a Play title below for more information |
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http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsH/HoyleFred.htm
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| | Fred Hoyle |
| | The Planet of Death (1982) (with Geoffrey Hoyle) | | | Sir Fred has had a distinguished carreer as a theoretical physicist, writer and researcher. | | | He has authored hundreds of technical articles, as well as textbooks, popular accounts of science, science fiction, and two autobiograqphies. |
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http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/h/fred-hoyle
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| | Fred Hoyle - Wikiquote |
| | Sir Fred Hoyle (1915–2001), British astronomer and science fiction author. | | | It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards. |
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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fred_Hoyle
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| | Home is Where the Wind Blows, Sir Fred Hoyle |
| | Mathematician, physicist, astronomer, cosmologist and originator of the term the 'Big Bang'-Sir Fred has always been ready and able to challenge established thinking. | | | Home is Where the Wind Blows, Sir Fred Hoyle | | | "Hoyle blazes bright, as human being and scientist." |
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http://www.uscibooks.com/hoyle.htm
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| | Fred Hoyle Home |
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