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Fred Hoyle's Universe
Author(s): Jane Gregory (Author)
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication Date: August 11, 2005
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 418 pages
- ISBN-10: 0198507917
- ISBN-13: 9780198507918
Book Description
Fred Hoyle also claimed that diseases fall from the sky, that the big bang never happened, and that the Astronomer Royal should be abolished. When the outspoken Fred Hoyle spoke out for astronomy, some astronomers really wished he had kept his mouth shut.
This book tells the behind-the-scenes story of Hoyle’s widely acclaimed and deeply controversial role in the ideas, organization and public face of astronomy in post-war Britain. It chronicles the triumphs, acrimony, jealousies, rewards and bitter feuds of a field in turmoil, and meets the astronomers, contemplating cosmic questions, keeping secrets, losing their tempers, winkling information out of distant stars and, over tea on the lawn, discussing the finer points of libel law.
Fred Hoyle’s Universe draws on previously confidential government documents, recently released personal correspondence and interviews with Hoyle’s friends, colleagues and critics, as well as with Hoyle himself, to bring you the man, the science, and the scandal behind the genial and genteel façade of the most exciting period in the history of astronomy.
