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| Title | The Cosmogony of the Solar System |
| Author | Hoyle, Fred |
| Asset Number | 00455 |
| Publisher | University College Cardiff Press |
| ISBN | 901426857 |
| Published Date | 1978 |
| Edition | 1 |
| Printing | 1 |
| Description | Cloth hardcover with clipped dust jacket.
Professor Sir Fred Hoyle was one of the most distinguished, creative, and controversial scientists of the twentieth century. He was a Fellow of St John's College (1939-1972, Honorary Fellow 1973-2001), was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1957, held the Plumian Chair of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy (1958-1972), established the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy in Cambridge (now part of the Institute of Astronomy), and (in 1972) received a knighthood for his services to astronomy.
Hoyle was a keen mountain climber, an avid player of chess, a science fiction writer, a populariser of science, and the man who coined the phrase 'The Big Bang'. |
| Category | Space Science |
| Epoch | Vintage |
| Date Acquired | 14/05/2022 |
| Condition | (2) Very Good |
