A Tribute to Sir Fred Hoyle

Saturday 29 October 2005

Summary

In his time cosmologist Sir Fred Hoyle was the most famous scientist in the
world, noted for his controversial alternative to the Big Bang, known as the
steady-state theory; for his revolutionary idea that the chemical elements
originated in the stars, and also for panspermia, the belief that germs come
to Earth from space. He helped to establish the Anglo-Australian Telescope
at Siding Spring Mountain in NSW and also wrote many science fiction novels.
Biographer Simon Mitton remembers Hoyle and the Astronomer Royal, Sir Martin
Rees comments on his work.

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ss/stories/s1490018.htm