Overview

This volume contains papers presented at an international conference to celebrate Fred Hoyle's monumental contributions to astronomy, astrophysics and astrobiology and more generally to humanity and culture. The contributed articles highlight the important aspects of his scientific life and show how much of an example and inspiration he has been for over three generations in the 20th century.

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Author:   N.C. Wickramasinghe ,  Geoffrey Burbidge ,  J.V. Narlikar
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2003
Dimensions:   Width: 21.00cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 27.90cm
Weight:   0.829kg
ISBN:  

9789048163397

ISBN 10:   9048163390
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   15 December 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Fred Hoyle’s Universe.- I: Personal Reminiscence.- Working with Fred (1942–49).- Fred Hoyle and naval radar 1941–5.- Fred Hoyle and the Anglo-Australian telescope.- Fred Hoyle and Manchester.- Meeting with a remarkable man: Sir Fred Hoyle Memorial Conference.- II: Stellar Structures and Evolution.- Fred’s contributions to stellar evolution.- Fred Hoyle, Red giants and beyond.- Some remarks on solar neutrinos.- Novae as thermonuclear laboratories.- The Eddington mission.- Black hole binary dynamics.- III: Cosmology.- Numerical coincidences and ‘Tuning’ in cosmology.- Working with Fred on action at a distance.- Gravity from spacetime thermodynamics.- A statistical evaluation of anomalous redshift claims.- Redshift periodicities, The galaxy-quasar connection.- Research with Fred.- The discovery of major new phenomenology in spiral discs and its theoretical meaning.- The Prehistory of the steady state theory.- IV: Interstellar Matter.- Interstellar matter and star formation.- Elevating the status of dust.- V: Comets.- Giant comets and human culture.- An exceptional cosmic influence and its bearing on the evolution of human culture as evident in the apparent early development of mathematics and astronomy.- VI: Panspermia.- Panspermia according to Hoyle.- Astronomy or biology?.- A balloon experiment to detect microorganisms in the outer space.- A microbiologist looks at Panspermia.- What Darwin missed.- Cosmic genes in the Cretaceous-tertiary transition.- Remembering Fred Hoyle.

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Fred Hoyle’s Universe, edited by C. Wickramasinghe, G. Burbridge and J. Narlikar. ISBN 1-4020-1415-5                                                                                          ‘This book is a joy to have. It is a marvelous tribute to the life and achievements of Fred Hoyle, written by those who knew him first hand, wether as wartime colleagues, research students, or employees.’ (Simon Mitton)  A&G vol. 45, 2004

Fred Hoyle's Universe, edited by C. Wickramasinghe, G. Burbridge and J. Narlikar. ISBN 1-4020-1415-5 'This book is a joy to have. It is a marvelous tribute to the life and achievements of Fred Hoyle, written by those who knew him first hand, wether as wartime colleagues, research students, or employees.' (Simon Mitton) A&G vol. 45, 2004

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