Fred Hoyle
Noun
Meaning
an English astrophysicist and advocate of the steady state theory of cosmology; described processes of nucleosynthesis inside stars (1915-2001)
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Applications of the principle The nucleosynthesis of carbon-12 Fred Hoyle may have invoked anthropic reasoning to predict an astrophysical phenomenon.
For example, Fred Hoyle suggested that potential for life on Earth was no more probable than a Boeing 747 being assembled by a hurricane from the scrapyard.
Fred Hoyle and the 7.65 MeV carbon resonance.
Fred Hoyle, Chandra Wickramasinghe and John Watson, Viruses from Space and Related Matters, University College Cardiff Press, 1986.
Fred Hoyle 's original work on nucleosynthesis of heavier elements in stars, occurred just after World War II.
ISBN 0-460-04335-8 *Commonsense in Nuclear Energy, Fred Hoyle and Geoffrey Hoyle, 1980, Heinemann Educational Books Ltd., ISBN 0-435-54432-2 *The big bang in astronomy, New Scientist 92(1280):527, 19 November 1981.