Fred Hoyle
Fred Hoyle (1915-2001) was a British astronomer who developed the steady state theory of cosmology. He was noted for his rejection of naturalistic theories of how the universe came into being.[1] Nobel Prize winner 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." [2] During a radio lecture, he coined the term "big bang" to ridicule the theory (that he disbelieved[3]) that the universe began from an explosion.
- He was best known for his seminal contributions to the theory of the structure of stars 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 with God, that the universe had no beginning.
In an obvious punishment of Fred Hoyle, the Nobel Prize was awarded to underlings for Fred Hoyle's work. This prize was awarded at a time when Fred Hoyle was embarrassing evolutionists by exposing the archaeopteryx at the British Museum of History as a fraud.[Citation Needed]
- By 1946 he 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 Hoyle collaborated with Willy Fowler, Margaret and Geoffrey Burbidge on an epoch-making paper on the nucleosynthesis of elements in stars. [
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- ↑ He supported the anthropic principle, holding that there is a design in creation: the universe was designed in such a way as to produce life. [1]
- ↑ http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hoyle.htm
- ↑ Hoyle held out against Big Bang theory, even post-1965, when the discovery of the microwave background led most cosmologists to favor it. Physics Today obituary
External links
- Obituary: Fred Hoyle (1915–2001) - Nature 413, 270 (20 September 2001)