Download or read book The Scientific Legacy of Fred Hoyle written by D. O. Gough and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-03-17 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the influence Fred Hoyle's research has had on advances in astronomy and cosmology.

Download or read book A Great Man of Science written by Francis A. Andrew and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francis Andrew has completed a monumental ten year task of writing appraisals on all of the published works of the late Sir Fred Hoyle. It is truly a worthwhile accomplishment as all of Hoyles books are now out of print. Francis Andrews work therefore offers a great service in preserving the thoughts of one the twentieth centurys greatest minds. Gihan, Weerasekara. Dompe, Sri Lanka. A Great Man of Great Science covers all of Sir Fred Hoyles publications from his fi rst in 1950 to his last in 2001. Francis Andrews appraisal of each of these works is the next best thing to reading the original works of Hoyle himself. After reading these appraisals, one could well be tempted to take the next step and read the actual works of Hoyle. Siddhant Bahuguna. Uttar Pradesh, India. Francis A. Andrew has truly done a magnificent job in writing appraisals for each of Sir Fred Hoyles works. As Francis style of writing has done so much to make Hoyle come alive and inject into his works a relevancy for the twenty fi rst century, so it would be that even if readers of this volume were unacquainted with any of Hoyles books, they would surely be tempted to procure for themselves the original works of Hoyle. Ajinkya Bhede. Maharashtra, Nagpur, India.

Download or read book Fred Hoyle written by Simon Mitton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-24 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scientific life of Fred Hoyle (1915-2001) was truly unparalleled. During his career he wrote groundbreaking scientific papers and caused bitter disputes in the scientific community with his revolutionary theories. Hoyle is best known for showing that we are all, literally, made of stardust in his paper explaining how carbon, and then all the heavier elements, were created by nuclear reactions inside stars. However, he constantly courted controversy and two years later he followed this with his 'steady state' theory of the universe. This challenged another model of the universe, which Hoyle called the 'big bang' theory. Fred Hoyle was also famous amongst the general public. He popularised his research through radio and television broadcasts and wrote best-selling novels. Written from personal accounts and interviews with Hoyle's contemporaries, this book gives valuable personal insights into Fred Hoyle and his unforgettable life.

Download or read book A Journey with Fred Hoyle written by Chandra Wickramasinghe and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2013 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the author''s unique scientific journey with one of the most remarkable men of 20th century science. The journey begins in Sri Lanka, the author''s native country, with his childhood acquaintance with Fred Hoyle''s writings. The action then moves to Cambridge, where the famous HoyleOCoWickramasinghe collaborations begin. A research programme which was started in 1962 on the carbonaceous nature of interstellar dust leads, over the next two decades, to developments that are continued in both Cambridge and Cardiff. These developments prompt Hoyle and the author to postulate the organic theory of cosmic dust (which is now generally accepted), and then to challenge one of the most cherished paradigms of contemporary science OCo the theory that life originated on Earth in a warm primordial soup.This new edition examines the many scientific developments that have transpired since the first edition was published. The discovery of bacteria in the upper reaches of the atmosphere, biological signatures in meteorites, spectroscopy of high-z galaxies and more all mesh with many of the ideas that had their origin in the first edition. Pushing into the future, the updated text examines the many experiments and probes currently operating or planned that will shed more light on the theory of planetary panspermia. A Journey with Fred Hoyle is an intriguing book that delineates the progress of a collaboration spanning 40 years, through a sequence of personal reflections, anecdotes and reminiscences.

Download or read book Fred Hoyle 1915 2001 written by Donald D. Clayton and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Flashes of Creation written by Paul Halpern and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A respected physics professor and author breaks down the great debate over the Big Bang and the continuing quest to understand the fate of the universe. Today, the Big Bang is so entrenched in our understanding of the cosmos that to doubt it would seem crazy. But as Paul Halpern shows in Flashes of Creation, just decades ago its mere mention caused sparks to fly. At the center of the debate were Russian American physicist George Gamow and British astrophysicist Fred Hoyle. Gamow insisted that a fiery explosion explained how the elements of the universe were created. Attacking the idea as half-baked, Hoyle countered that the universe was engaged in a never-ending process of creation. The battle was fierce. In the end, Gamow turned out to be right -- mostly -- and Hoyle, along with his many achievements, is remembered for giving the theory the silliest possible name: "The Big Bang." Halpern captures the brilliance of both thinkers and reminds us that even those proved wrong have much to teach us about boldness, imagination, and the universe itself.

Download or read book Fred Hoyle s Universe written by Jane Gregory and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2005-05-26 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fred Hoyle was one of the most widely acclaimed and colourful scientists of the twentieth century, a down-to-earth Yorkshireman who combined a brilliant scientific mind with a relish for communication and controversy.Best known for his steady-state theory of cosmology, he described a universe with both an infinite past and an infinite future. He coined the phrase 'big bang' to describe the main competing theory, and sustained a long-running, sometimes ill-tempered, and typically public debate with his scientific rivals. He showed how the elements are formed by nuclear reactions inside stars, and explained how we are therefore all formed from stardust. He also claimed that diseases fall from the sky,attacked Darwinism, and branded the famous fossil of the feathered Archaeopteryx a fake.Throughout his career, Hoyle played a major role in the popularization of science. Through his radio broadcasts and his highly successful science fiction novels he became a household name, though his outspokenness and support for increasingly outlandish causes later in life at times antagonized the scientific community.Jane Gregory builds up a vivid picture of Hoyle's role in the ideas, the organization, and the popularization of astronomy in post-war Britain, and provides a fascinating examination of the relationship between a maverick scientist, the scientific establishment, and the public. Through the life of Hoyle, this book chronicles the triumphs, jealousies, rewards, and feuds of a rapidly developing scientific field, in a narrative animated by a cast of colourful astronomers, keeping secrets, losingtheir tempers, and building their careers here on Earth while contemplating the nature of the stars.

Download or read book Georges Lema tre Life Science and Legacy written by Rodney D. Holder and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-01-13 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 2011 marked the 80th anniversary of Georges Lemaître’s primeval atom model of the universe, forerunner of the modern day Big Bang theory. Prompted by this momentous anniversary the Royal Astronomical Society decided to publish a volume of essays on the life, work and faith of this great cosmologist, who was also a Roman Catholic priest. The papers presented in this book examine in detail the historical, cosmological, philosophical and theological issues surrounding the development of the Big Bang theory from its beginnings in the pioneering work of Lemaître through to the modern day. This book offers the best account in English of Lemaître’s life and work. It will be appreciated by professionals and graduate students interested in the history of cosmology.

Download or read book A Great Man of Science written by Francis A. Andrew and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout his life, Sir Fred Hoyle was, apart from being one of the greatest scientists of the twentieth century, a prolific writer in the fields of science fact, science fiction, politics and autobiography. Almost all of his books are now out of print,yet their messages remain as valid today as they did in the period in which they were written. As these books are not readily available, the reviews of them in Francis Andrew's work serve to provide a flavour of their contents and the sentiments which they express.

Download or read book A Brief History of Time written by Stephen Hawking and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1998-09-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A landmark volume in science writing by one of the great minds of our time, Stephen Hawking’s book explores such profound questions as: How did the universe begin—and what made its start possible? Does time always flow forward? Is the universe unending—or are there boundaries? Are there other dimensions in space? What will happen when it all ends? Told in language we all can understand, A Brief History of Time plunges into the exotic realms of black holes and quarks, of antimatter and “arrows of time,” of the big bang and a bigger God—where the possibilities are wondrous and unexpected. With exciting images and profound imagination, Stephen Hawking brings us closer to the ultimate secrets at the very heart of creation.

Download or read book The Cambridge Concise History of Astronomy written by Michael Hoskin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-03-18 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Astronomy is one of the oldest sciences, and one which has repeatedly led to fundamental changes in our view of the world. This book covers the history of our study of the cosmos from prehistory through to a survey of modern astronomy and astrophysics (sure to be of interest to future historians of twentieth-century astronomy). It does not attempt to cover everything, but deliberately concentrates on the important themes and topics. These include stellar astronomy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, at the time subordinate to the study of the solar system, but the source of many important concepts in modern astronomy, and the Copernican revolution, which led to the challenge of ancient authorities in many areas, not just astronomy. This is an essential text for students of the history of science and for students of astronomy who require a historical background to their studies.

Download or read book Brilliant Blunders written by Mario Livio and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Drawing on the lives of five great scientists -- Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle and Albert Einstein -- scientist/author Mario Livio shows how even the greatest scientists made major mistakes and how science built on these errors to achieve breakthroughs, especially into the evolution of life and the universe"--

Download or read book Stephen Hawking written by Nandini Saraf and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2016-07-04 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embark on a captivating journey through the life and mind of one of the greatest scientific minds of our time with "Stephen Hawking" by Nandini Saraf, a compelling biography that illuminates the extraordinary achievements and indomitable spirit of the renowned physicist. Discover the remarkable story of Stephen Hawking, whose brilliance and resilience transcended the confines of his physical limitations to unlock the mysteries of the universe. From his groundbreaking work on black holes to his bestselling book "A Brief History of Time," Hawking's contributions to theoretical physics have forever changed our understanding of space, time, and the cosmos. Explore the themes of curiosity, perseverance, and intellectual curiosity as you delve into Hawking's life and legacy. Through meticulous research and insightful commentary, Nandini Saraf paints a vivid portrait of a man whose insatiable curiosity and boundless intellect inspired generations of scientists and thinkers. With its engaging narrative and thought-provoking insights, "Stephen Hawking" offers readers a window into the mind of a true visionary. Saraf's compelling storytelling brings to life the challenges and triumphs of a man who defied the odds and reshaped our understanding of the universe. Experience the thrill of scientific discovery as you follow Hawking's journey from his early years as a curious schoolboy to his later years as a celebrated scientist and public figure. From his groundbreaking theories on the origin of the universe to his advocacy for science education and disability rights, each chapter is a testament to Hawking's enduring legacy. Join the ranks of inspired readers who have been captivated by Nandini Saraf's illuminating biography of Stephen Hawking. Whether you're a longtime admirer of the physicist's work or simply curious about the life of a true genius, "Stephen Hawking" is sure to leave a lasting impression and inspire you to reach for the stars. Don't miss your chance to explore the life and legacy of one of the most influential scientists of our time. Let "Stephen Hawking" be your guide on a journey of discovery and inspiration, as you uncover the secrets of the universe and celebrate the remarkable achievements of a true visionary.

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Download or read book The Privileged Planet written by Guillermo Gonzalez and published by Regnery Gateway. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earth. The Final Frontier Contrary to popular belief, Earth is not an insignificant blip on the universe’s radar. Our world proves anything but average in Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay W. Richards’ The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos Is Designed for Discovery. But what exactly does Earth bring to the table? How does it prove its worth among numerous planets and constellations in the vastness of the Milky Way? In The Privileged Planet, you’ll learn about the world’s life-sustaining capabilities, water and its miraculous makeup, protection by the planetary giants, and how our planet came into existence in the first place.

Download or read book The Martian Chronicles written by Ray Bradbury and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tranquility of Mars is disrupted by humans who want to conquer space, colonize the planet, and escape a doomed Earth.