Sir Fred Hoyle (24 June 1915 – 20 August 2001) was an English astronomer who formulated the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis and was one of the authors...
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Hoyle (born 1967), British businessman Doug Hoyle (born 1930), British politician Edmond Hoyle (1672–1769), compiler of rules of card games Sir Fred Hoyle...
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astrochemistry, the origin of life and astrobiology. A student and collaborator of Fred Hoyle, the pair worked jointly for over 40 years as influential proponents of...
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Junkyard tornado (redirect from Hoyle's Fallacy)
The junkyard tornado, sometimes known as Hoyle's fallacy, is a fallacious argument formulated by Fred Hoyle against Earth-based abiogenesis and in favor...
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Carbon-12 (redirect from Hoyle state)
The Hoyle state is an excited, spinless, resonant state of carbon-12. It is produced via the triple-alpha process and was predicted to exist by Fred Hoyle...
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The Hoyle–Narlikar theory of gravity is a Machian and conformal theory of gravity proposed by Fred Hoyle and Jayant Narlikar that originally fits into...
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beryllium-8 to form carbon. The existence of this resonance was predicted by Fred Hoyle before its actual observation, based on the physical necessity for it...
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B2FH paper (redirect from Burbidge, Burbidge, Fowler and Hoyle)
authors: Margaret Burbidge, Geoffrey Burbidge, William A. Fowler, and Fred Hoyle. It was written from 1955 to 1956 at the University of Cambridge and Caltech...
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Christianity portal Frederick James (Fred) Hoyle (14 December 1918 – 11 February 1994) was the inaugural Archdeacon of Bolton. He was educated at St John's...
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3 September 2019. Retrieved 2 December 2019. "Hoyle on the Radio: Creating the 'Big Bang'". Fred Hoyle: An Online Exhibition. Cambridge: St John's College...
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and Astrophysics (IUCAA). He developed with Sir Fred Hoyle the conformal gravity theory, known as Hoyle–Narlikar theory. It synthesises Albert Einstein's...
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Geoffrey Hoyle (born 12 January 1941) is an English science fiction writer, who co-wrote with his father, the astronomer Fred Hoyle. About half of Fred Hoyle's...
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steady-state cosmology were published by Hermann Bondi, Thomas Gold, and Fred Hoyle in 1948. Similar models had been proposed earlier by William Duncan MacMillan...
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A for Andromeda (category Works by Fred Hoyle)
and broadcast by the BBC in seven parts in 1961. Written by cosmologist Fred Hoyle, in conjunction with author and television producer John Elliot, it concerns...
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in the BBC's popular spy drama series Spooks (2002–2011), and played Fred Hoyle in Hawking, a BBC dramatisation of the early career of Stephen Hawking...
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much more abundant than others. The theory was initially proposed by Fred Hoyle in 1946, who later refined it in 1954. Further advances were made, especially...
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distinguishes between Cepheid I and Cepheid II variable stars 1953 — Fred Hoyle predicts a carbon-12 resonance to allow stellar triple alpha reactions...
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observations were either ignored or disregarded. Researchers Thomas Gold and Fred Hoyle identified this astronomical object as a rapidly rotating neutron star...
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The Black Cloud (category Novels by Fred Hoyle)
Black Cloud is a 1957 science fiction novel by British astrophysicist Fred Hoyle. It details the arrival of an enormous cloud of gas that enters the Solar...
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nucleogenesis and cosmology. He wrote a number of textbooks. He collaborated with Fred Hoyle and Stephen Hawking at the University of Cambridge on problems of helium...
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(1883–1912) Arthur Eddington (1913–1944) Harold Jeffreys (1946–1958) Fred Hoyle (1958–1972) Martin Rees (1973–1991) Richard Ellis (1993–2000) Jeremiah...
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acknowledged Fred Hoyle as the pioneer of the concept of stellar nucleosynthesis but Hoyle did not receive a share in the prize. Hoyle's championing of...
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thus acquired to try to develop countermeasures, under the leadership of Fred Hoyle at the British radar project. The Admiralty complained about the large...
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A for Andromeda (2006 film) (category Works by Fred Hoyle)
Andromeda is a 2006 remake of the 1961 TV series of the same name by Fred Hoyle and John Elliot. The plot centres on a group of scientists who detect...
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Nevertheless, there remained vocal detractors of the Big Bang theory including Fred Hoyle, Jayant Narlikar, Halton Arp, and Hannes Alfvén, whose cosmologies were...
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invited speaker at a conference held in Cardiff, Wales, in memory of Fred Hoyle. In 2004, together with John D. Barrow, Mestel organised a Commemoration...
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further and suggested that other elements also might form within stars. Fred Hoyle elaborated on this premise by arguing that evolved stars called red giants...
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The Fred Hoyle Medal and Prize was established in 2008 by the Institute of Physics of London for distinguished contributions to astrophysics, gravitational...
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best known for developing the steady state model of the universe with Fred Hoyle and Thomas Gold as an alternative to the Big Bang theory. He contributed...
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for by nuclear reactions in a hot dense universe. He was disputed by Fred Hoyle (1915–2001), who invented the term 'Big Bang' to disparage it. Fermi and...
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