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Nobel Prize winner [[William Alfred Fowler]] wrote: "Fred Hoyle was the second great influence in my life. The grand concept of [[nucleosynthesis]] in stars was first definitely established by Hoyle in 1946."<ref>http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hoyle.htm</ref> During a radio lecture, he coined the term "[[Big Bang theory|big bang]]" to ridicule the theory (which he disbelieved<ref>Hoyle held out against Big Bang theory, even post-1965, when the discovery of a microwave background in the universe led most cosmologists to favor it. [http://www.physicstoday.org/vol-54/iss-11/p75b.html Physics Today] obituary </ref>) that the universe began from an explosion.

Nobel Prize winner [[William Alfred Fowler]] wrote: "Fred Hoyle was the second great influence in my life. The grand concept of [[nucleosynthesis]] in stars was first definitely established by Hoyle in 1946."<ref>http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hoyle.htm</ref> During a radio lecture, he coined the term "[[Big Bang theory|big bang]]" to ridicule the theory (which he disbelieved<ref>Hoyle held out against Big Bang theory, even post-1965, when the discovery of a microwave background in the universe led most cosmologists to favor it. [http://www.physicstoday.org/vol-54/iss-11/p75b.html Physics Today] obituary </ref>) that the universe began from an explosion.

Hoyle was best known for his seminal contributions to the theory of the structure of [[star]]s and on the origin of the chemical elements in stars. He was a joint proponent of the steady state model of the universe, which claims, in contradiction to the [[Biblical creation account]], that the universe had no beginning.

Hoyle was best known for his seminal contributions to the theory of the structure of [[star]]s and on the origin of the [[chemical elements]] in stars. He was a joint proponent of the steady state model of the universe, which claims, in contradiction to the [[Biblical creation account]], that the universe had no beginning.

In 1983 the [[Nobel Prize]] committee insulted Hoyle by passing him over and giving the award to underlings for his work.  "For ... one of the greatest intellectual triumphs of modern physics, he was ignored by the Nobel Prize committee which chose to reward others who had done lesser work in this field. Thus, the scientific establishment, which claims to seek truth dispassionately, treated one of its finest proponents with contempt."<ref>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2005/jul/24/biography.features1</ref>  In the same year Hoyle had exposed that the [[Archaeopteryx]] - then a favorite of promoters of [[evolution]] - was a fraud.  Several years earlier, Hoyle had also condemned the exclusion of [[Jocelyn Bell Burnell]] from the 1974 Nobel Prize for Physics.

In 1983 the [[Nobel Prize]] committee insulted Hoyle by passing him over and giving the award to underlings for his work.  "For ... one of the greatest intellectual triumphs of modern physics, he was ignored by the Nobel Prize committee which chose to reward others who had done lesser work in this field. Thus, the scientific establishment, which claims to seek truth dispassionately, treated one of its finest proponents with contempt."<ref>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2005/jul/24/biography.features1</ref>  In the same year Hoyle had exposed that the [[Archaeopteryx]] - then a favorite of promoters of [[evolution]] - was a fraud.  Several years earlier, Hoyle had also condemned the exclusion of [[Jocelyn Bell Burnell]] from the 1974 Nobel Prize for Physics.