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050 00 $aQB460.72.H69$bA3 1994
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100 1 $aHoyle, Fred,$d1915-2001.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018031
245 10 $aHome is where the wind blows :$bchapters from a cosmologist's life /$cFred Hoyle.
260 $aMill Valley, Calif. :$bUniversity Science Books,$c[1994], ©1994.
263 $a9402
300 $axi, 443 pages, 24 pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aIn Home Is Where the Wind Blows, Sir Fred Hoyle, one of this century's most eminent scientists and author of dozens of successful books, both fiction and nonfiction, offers a revealing and charming account of his life and work.
520 8 $aMathematician, physicist, astronomer, cosmologist - Sir Fred is perhaps best known, in scientific circles, for his brilliant explanation of the origin of the elements from hydrogen nuclei in stars (a process known as nucleosynthesis) and for developing (with Sir Hermann Bondi and Thomas Gold) the elegant but controversial steady-state theory of the Universe (which assumes the continuous creation of matter).
520 8 $aIn 1950, in the last of a series of radio lectures on astronomy that he delivered on the air for the BBC, Sir Fred coined the term "Big Bang" to characterize the competing expanding-Universe theory, which has since become the dominant paradigm. Ironically, the term has become a permanent addition to the language of cosmology.
520 8 $a. Sir Fred's name has become well known to the general public because of his unusual ability to describe the ideas of science in a simple and accessible way. In addition to his scientific work, he has written more than a dozen works of popular science (many of them widely translated) and more than a dozen works of science fiction (most of them in collaboration with his son, Geoffrey).
520 8 $aIn all his work, Sir Fred has shown himself to be ready and able to challenge established thinking. In the author's amusing and memorable account of his childhood in Home Is Where the Wind Blows, the reader will see how this came to be true. Possessed since infancy with a strong streak of independence, he was encouraged by his parents, throughout his school years, to trust his own judgment and to think for himself.
600 10 $aHoyle, Fred,$d1915-2001.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018031
650 0 $aAstrophysics$xHistory.
650 0 $aAstrophysicists$zGreat Britain$vBiography.
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