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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 concluded that the [[Archaeopteryx]]- then a favorite of promoters of [[evolution]] - was a fraud.  Independently, and years earlier, Hoyle 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 concluded 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.

By 1946 Hoyle had formulated the original and still generally accepted idea that the elements are generated in evolving stars and injected into the interstellar medium by [[supernova]] explosions. In 1957 he collaborated with William Alfred Fowler, Margaret Burbidge and Geoffrey Burbidge on an epoch-making paper on the nucleosynthesis of elements in stars.<ref>http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0275%2FHoyle</ref>

By 1946 Hoyle had formulated the original and still generally accepted idea that the elements are generated in evolving stars and injected into the interstellar medium by [[supernova]] explosions. In 1957 he collaborated with William Alfred Fowler, Margaret Burbidge and Geoffrey Burbidge on an epoch-making paper on the nucleosynthesis of elements in stars.<ref>http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0275%2FHoyle</ref>