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Fred Hoyle was a British astronomer who lived from 1915 to 2001 and made significant contributions to our understanding of how stars work and how chemical elements form in the universe. His work fundamentally changed astronomy and physics by explaining processes that had previously been mysterious to scientists.
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- human
- Given name
- Fred
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Bingley
- Place of death
- Bournemouth
- Occupation
- astrophysicist
- Employer
- British Admiralty Office
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- irreligion
- Notable work
- B²FH paper
- Doctoral student
- John Gribbin
- Field of work
- astronomy
- Official website
- www.hoyle.org.uk
- Image
- Fred Hoyle 1967.jpg
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- member of
- National Academy of Sciences
- Commons category
- Fred Hoyle
- date of birth
- 1915-06-24
- date of death
- 2001-08-20
- cause of death
- stroke
- manner of death
- natural causes
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics
- name in native language
- Fred Hoyle
- maintained by WikiProject
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Encyclopedic overview
Sir Fred Hoyle (24 June 1915 – 20 August 2001) was an English astronomer. With Margaret and Geoffrey Burbidge and William Alfred Fowler, he formulated the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis in the influential BFH paper.
He held controversial views on some scientific matters — in particular, in his rejection of the "Big Bang" theory (a term he jokingly coined on BBC Radio, though he later denied doing so in derision) in favour of a "steady-state model", and his promotion of panspermia as the origin of life on Earth.
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