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  2. Fred Hoyle - Wikipedia

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    Sir Fred Hoyle FRS (24 June 1915 – 20 August 2001) [1] was an English astronomer who formulated the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis and was one of the authors of the influential B 2 FH paper.

  3. Nobel Prize controversies - Wikipedia

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    Hoyle's championing of many disreputable and disproven ideas may have damaged his overall reputation and invalidated him in the Nobel committee's view. [187] [188] Hoyle's obituary in Physics Today notes that "Many of us felt that Hoyle should have shared Fowler's 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics, but the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences later made ...

  4. Junkyard tornado - Wikipedia

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    The junkyard tornado argument has been taken out of its original context by theists to argue for intelligent design, and has since become a mainstay in the rejection of evolution by religious groups, even though Fred Hoyle declared himself an atheist, [1] and even though the junkyard tornado argument is considered a fallacy in its original ...

  5. Sir Fred Hoyle - Wikipedia

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  6. Politics in education - Wikipedia

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    As an academic discipline the study of politics in education has two main roots: The first root is based on theories from political science while the second root is footed in organizational theory. [1] Political science attempts to explain how societies and social organizations use power to establish

  7. Logology (science) - Wikipedia

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    Astronomer Fred Hoyle discovered the process by which the heavier elements essential to life are created by nuclear reactions in the cores of massive stars. He then proposed a theory of the history of the universe known as steady-state cosmology, which has the universe existing forever without an initial Big Bang (as Hoyle derisively dubbed it ...

  8. B2FH paper - Wikipedia

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    Some have argued that Fred Hoyle deserved similar recognition for theoretical work on the topic, and contend that his unorthodox views concerning the Big Bang stopped him being awarded a share of the Nobel Prize. Geoffrey Burbidge, for example, argued in 2008 that "Hoyle should have been awarded a Nobel Prize for this and other work". He also ...

  9. Hoyle–Narlikar theory of gravity - Wikipedia

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    The theory was inspired by the Wheeler–Feynman absorber theory for electrodynamics. [3] When Richard Feynman, as a graduate student, lectured on the Wheeler–Feynman absorber theory in the weekly physics seminar at Princeton, Albert Einstein was in the audience and stated at question time that he was trying to achieve the same thing for ...