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Fred Hoyle's Universe (Hardcover)
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Fred Hoyle's Universe (Hardcover)
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Fred Hoyle was one of the most widely acclaimed and colourful
scientists of the twentieth century, a down-to-earth Yorkshireman
who combined a brilliant scientific mind with a relish for
communication and controversy. Best known for his steady-state
theory of cosmology, he described a universe with both an infinite
past and an infinite future. He coined the phrase 'big bang' to
describe the main competing theory, and sustained a long-running,
sometimes ill-tempered, and typically public debate with his
scientific rivals. He showed how the elements are formed by nuclear
reactions inside stars, and explained how we are therefore all
formed from stardust. He also claimed that diseases fall from the
sky, attacked Darwinism, and branded the famous fossil of the
feathered Archaeopteryx a fake. Throughout his career, Hoyle played
a major role in the popularization of science. Through his radio
broadcasts and his highly successful science fiction novels he
became a household name, though his outspokenness and support for
increasingly outlandish causes later in life at times antagonized
the scientific community. Jane Gregory builds up a vivid picture of
Hoyle's role in the ideas, the organization, and the popularization
of astronomy in post-war Britain, and provides a fascinating
examination of the relationship between a maverick scientist, the
scientific establishment, and the public. Through the life of
Hoyle, this book chronicles the triumphs, jealousies, rewards, and
feuds of a rapidly developing scientific field, in a narrative
animated by a cast of colourful astronomers, keeping secrets,
losing their tempers, and building their careers here on Earth
while contemplating the nature of the stars.
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