Fred Hoyle
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Sir Fred Hoyle was an English astronomer. With Margaret and Geoffrey Burbidge and William Alfred Fowler, he formulated the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis in the influential B2FH paper.
Hoyle in 1967
Blue plaque at Bingley Grammar School commemorating Hoyle
Hoyle in 1988
Statue of Hoyle at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge
The Black Cloud
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The Black Cloud is a 1957 science fiction novel by British astrophysicist Fred Hoyle. It details the arrival of an enormous cloud of gas that enters the Solar System and appears about to destroy most
Fred Hoyle
…the River Plate. Britain's radar project was a large-scale operation, and was probably the inspiration for the large British project in Hoyle's novel The Black Cloud. Two colleagues in this war work were Hermann Bondi and Thomas Gold, and the three had many discussions on cosmology. The radar work involved several…
Cover of the first edition