• Sir Fred Hoyle FRS (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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • Rubik's Cubes simultaneously. It was used originally by English astronomer Fred Hoyle (1915–2001) in his book The Intelligent Universe, where he tried to apply...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    basis for a pre-organic form of evolution on Earth (see clay hypothesis). Fred Hoyle (1915-2001), a prominent astronomer at the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge...
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  • to exist in the universe. Fred Hoyle also argued for a fine-tuned universe in his 1983 book The Intelligent Universe. Hoyle wrote: "The list of anthropic...
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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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    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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  • Fifth Planet (novel) (category Novels by Fred Hoyle)
    is a science fiction novel written by astrophysicist Sir Fred Hoyle and his son Geoffrey Hoyle. Another star is due to pass close to the sun, close enough...
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  • from Space is a book published in 1979 that was authored by astronomers Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe, where they propose that many of the most common...
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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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    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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    Stars, William Alfred Fowler, Margaret Burbidge, Geoffrey Burbidge, and Fred Hoyle explained how the abundances of essentially all but the lightest chemical...
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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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    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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  • produced by rapid neutron capture. 1948 – Hermann Bondi, Thomas Gold, and Fred Hoyle propose steady state cosmologies based on the perfect cosmological principle...
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