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The Hoyle story

The achievements of Fred Hoyle, one of the twentieth century's great innovators in astronomy, were celebrated at a recent meeting. In many respects, it emerged, Hoyle's thinking was ahead of his time.

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  1. * Frontiers in Astronomy, Institute of Astronomy/St John's College, Cambridge, UK, 16 April 2002.

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Maddox, J. The Hoyle story. Nature 417, 603–605 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/417603a

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