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Fred Hoyle is credited with coining the term Big Bang during a 1949 radio broadcast.
* 1915 – Fred Hoyle, English astronomer ( d. 2001 )
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Flew proposed the view, held earlier by Fred Hoyle, that the universe is too young for life to have developed purely by chance and that, therefore, an intelligent being must exist which was involved in designing the conditions required for life to evolve.
For example, Fred Hoyle suggested that potential for life on Earth was no more probable than a Boeing 747 being assembled by a hurricane from the scrapyard.
* August 20 – Fred Hoyle, British astronomer and writer ( b. 1915 )
** English astronomer Fred Hoyle coins the term Big Bang
* June 24 – Sir Fred Hoyle, British astronomer ( d. 2001 )
The book was published in 1963 as part of the Time Reading Program with an introduction by Fred Hoyle.
However, in order to give the series as authentic a veneer as possible, Geoffrey Hoyle, son of physicist Fred Hoyle and a noted science fiction author in his own right, gave his advice regarding how time travel might be possible.
* 1953 — Fred Hoyle predicts a carbon-12 resonance to allow stellar triple alpha reactions at reasonable stellar interior temperatures
* 1963 — Fred Hoyle and William A. Fowler conceive the idea of supermassive stars
* 1948 — Hermann Bondi, Thomas Gold, and Fred Hoyle propose steady state cosmologies based on the perfect cosmological principle
* 1950 — Fred Hoyle coins the term " Big Bang ", saying that it was not derisive ; it was just a striking image meant to highlight the difference between that and the Steady-State model.
* 1974 — Robert Wagoner, William Fowler, and Fred Hoyle show that the hot Big Bang predicts the correct deuterium and lithium abundances
This lent theoretical support to the Big Bang theory, although it did not explain the presence of elements heavier than helium ( this was later explained by Fred Hoyle ).
That theory was begun by Fred Hoyle in 1946 with his argument that a collection of very hot nuclei would assemble into iron.
After graduating with a pass degree in June 1942, Gold worked briefly as an agricultural laborer and lumberjack in northern England before joining Bondi and Fred Hoyle on naval research into radar ground clutter near Dunsfold, Surrey.
In 1960, Gold collaborated again with Fred Hoyle to show that magnetic energy fueled solar flares and that flares were triggered when opposite magnetic loops interact and release their stored energy.
Gold engaged in thorough discussion on the matter with Fred Hoyle, who even included a chapter on " Gold's Pore Theory " in his 1955 book Frontiers in Astronomy.
In 1985, Gold won the prestigious Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, an award whose recipients include Fred Hoyle, Hermann Bondi, Martin Ryle, Edwin Hubble, James Van Allen, Fritz Zwicky, Hannes Alfvén and Albert Einstein.
In the West, Thomas Gold and Sir Fred Hoyle were in dispute with H. Alfven and N. Herlofson, while K. O.
Many of the world's leading astronomers have appeared on the show through the years, including Harlow Shapley ( the first to measure the size of the Milky Way galaxy ), Fred Hoyle, Carl Sagan, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Samuel Tolansky, Harold Spencer Jones, Martin Ryle, Carlos Frenk, and Bart Bok.
Fred and Astronomer
* August 20 – Fred Hoyle, Astronomer and science fiction writer
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Fred Rankin looked at him.
For less than a dozen miles from the unplowed land of the dead man lived another settler who had ignored the warnings that his existence might be foreclosed on -- a blatant and defiant rustler named Fred Powell.
`` Fred was mighty crude about the way he took in cattle '' his own hired man, Andy Ross, mentioned later.
He looked around in surprise, then noticed that Fred Powell was clutching his chest.
The first systematic thinking about this Pandora's box within Pandora's boxes was done four years ago by Fred Ikle, a frail, meek-mannered Swiss-born sociologist.
When Fred wheeled him back into his room, the big one looking out on the back porch, and put him to bed, Papa told him he was very tired but that he had enjoyed greatly the trip downtown.
`` Dr. Glenn, I've got a lot of blood '', Fred spoke up, `` plenty of it.
`` Fred, your blood matches your father's, all right '', Dr. Glenn said.
Fred demanded.
`` Because, Fred, it could do him no good.
At his death Fred and Ralph, my husband, were named executors of the estate under the terms of the will.
Fred and Ralph qualified as executors and paid off what debts were currently due, and they were all current, since Papa was never one to allow bills to go unpaid.
After they had paid all his debts and the funeral costs, Ralph and Fred had some fourteen thousand dollars, as I remember, with which to pay the bequests.
So what Fred and Ralph did was to attempt to prorate the money fairly by taking into account what each of the five had received, if anything, from the estate before Papa's death.
Consequently, Fred and Tom, the two who had been provided college educations, signed statements to the effect that each had received his bequest in full, and Effie and I were each allotted $5000.
Tom had received four years of education at the University of North Carolina and two at Harvard, and Fred had been in and out of Georgia Tech and Carneigie Tech and part of the time had been a self-help student.
So, because he had received less than Tom, it was felt proper that Fred should receive the few hundred dollars that remained.
With a wary eye on the farmer's bull, Fred Somers of Montpelier and Mr. St. John marked the field with a red table cloth.
Assistant Prosecutor Fred Lewis, who tried both the Hengesbach and Pohl cases, said he did not know what would be done about two arson charges pending against Pohl.
The award was made by Judge Fred B. Perkins who heard their petition without a jury by agreement of the parties.
Other officers are Angelo J. Scampini, vice president, Joseph V. Arata, treasurer, and Fred J. Casassa, secretary.
But plain old bean soup, served daily since the turn of the century ( at the insistence of the late Sen. Fred Dubois of Idaho ), made clear to the citizenry that the Senate's stomach was in the right place.
* 1913 – Fred Davis, English snooker player ( d. 1998 )
The Australians were greatly demoralised by the manner of their second-innings collapse, but fast bowler Fred Spofforth, spurred on by some gamesmanship by his opponents, refused to give in.
This was the beginning of one of the greatest periods in English cricket history with players such as captain Len Hutton, batsmen Denis Compton, Peter May, Tom Graveney, Colin Cowdrey, bowlers Fred Trueman, Brian Statham, Alec Bedser, Jim Laker, Tony Lock and wicket-keeper Godfrey Evans.
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