Fred Hoyle was born at Bingley, Yorkshire, England, in 1915. He attended Bingley Grammar School and went on to Emmanuel College at Cambridge. He eventually became a teacher of mathematics at Cambridge, a professor of astronomy and experimental...

When Fred Hoyle published his first science-fiction novel, The Black Cloud, in 1957, he was already a distinguished and world-famous scientist and teacher, on his way toward a prestigious astronomy chair at Cambridge, and about to join the research...

British astronomer and cosmologist Sir Fred Hoyle (born 1915) is best known as the champion of the steady-state theory of the nature of the universe. He also has made significant contributions to the study of stellar evolution and has published more...

English astronomer A prolific and talented author in both science fact and fiction, Fred Hoyle is best known for publicizing the controversial steady state theory of the creation of the universe. Hoyle also helped develop radar and advance the...

Sir Frederick Hoyle, FRS, (June 24, 1915– August 20, 2001 ) was a British astronomer. He was born in Gilstead near Bingley, West Yorkshire, England[1]. His father, George Hoyle, was working in the wool trade in Bradford. Hoyle’s mother, Mabel...

Fred Hoyle, 86, the astronomer who coined the name of the "big- bang theory" but never accepted it for the origin of the universe, died Aug. 20 in Bournemouth, England, of complications after a stroke. He became Britain's best-known astronomer in 1950 with...

THROUGHOUT A long and distinguished career stretching over six decades Fred Hoyle sought to answer some of the biggest questions in science. How did the Universe originate? How did life begin? What are the eventual fates of planets, stars and galaxies? More often than...

Today is Saturday, Feb. 3, the 34th day of 2007. There are 331 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On February 3, 1959, a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, claimed the lives of rock 'n' roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P....