Fred Hoyle
1915 – 2001 · aged 86
British astronomer (1915–2001)
- Born
- 24 Jun 1915 · Bingley
- Died
- 20 Aug 2001 · Bournemouth
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- 24 Jun 1915BornBorn in Bingley
- 1936AwardMayhew Prize
- 1938AwardSmith's Prize
- 1957AwardFellow of the Royal Society
- 1957 – 1972RolePlumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy
- 1960AwardGuthrie Lecture
- 1964AwardRichtmyer Memorial Lecture Award
- 1968AwardGold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
- 1968AwardKalinga Prize
- 1968AwardRoyal Society Bakerian Medal
- 1969AwardKarl G. Jansky Lectureship
- 1970AwardBruce Medal
- 1971AwardHenry Norris Russell Lectureship
- 1971 – 1973RolePresident of the Royal Astronomical Society
- 1972AwardKnight Bachelor
- 20 Aug 2001DiedDied in Bournemouth
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Major world events during their lifetime (1915 – 2001).
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1939 – 1945World War II
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
- 19501950 FIFA World Cup
- 1950 – 1953Korean War
- 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
- 19541954 FIFA World Cup
- 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
- 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
- 1956Suez Crisis
- 19581958 FIFA World Cup
- 1959Antarctic Treaty System
- 19621962 FIFA World Cup
- 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
- 19661966 FIFA World Cup
- 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
- 1968Prague Spring
- 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
- 19721972 Summer Olympics
- 19741974 FIFA World Cup
- 19781978 FIFA World Cup
Biography
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 B2FH 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.
He spent most of his working life at St John's College, Cambridge, and served as the founding director of the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy at Cambridge.
Hoyle also wrote science fiction novels, short stories, and radio plays, co-created television serials, and, with his son, Geoffrey Hoyle, co-authored twelve books.
Text from the Wikipedia article Fred Hoyle, CC BY-SA 4.0
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