Fred Hoyle

Sir Fred Hoyle (1915-2001) was an astronomer, cosmologist, and science fiction author.

"Born in Yorkshire, England. He attended Emmanuel College at Cambridge and was then hired to teach mathematics at Cambridge University. Later he moved to the United States to take a job as a professor of astronomy and philosophy at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York." (reference for quote: ("Fred Hoyle." Astronomy & Space: From the Big Bang to the Big Crunch. 3 vols. U*X*L, 1997. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2007.)

Hoyle championed the steady state of cosmology, and coined the phrase "big bang" as a way of ridiculing an alternative theory (which, however, is now widely accepted).

Further Reading

Fred Hoyle: Home Is Where the Wind Blows: Chapters from a Cosmologist's Life. ISBN 0-935702-27-X

External links

The official website: [1]