Throughout his career as an astronomer, Thomas Gold (born 1920) has been no stranger to controversy. He has argued for a "steady-state" theory of the origin of the universe rather than the more popular big bang theory. He has also postulated a...

Born in Vienna, Austria, on May 22, 1920, Thomas Gold emigrated to England, where he attended Cambridge University, graduating in 1942. He received a master's degree three years later. In 1956 he came to the United States, worked for a year at Harvard...

1920- Austrian-born, British astronomer who proposed the steady-state theory of the universe in which the density of matter is kept constant by the continuous creation of matter throughout the expanding universe. An alternative explanation, the Big...

Thomas Gold (May 22, 1920 – June 22, 2004) was an Austrian astrophysicist, a professor of astronomy at Cornell University, and a member of the US National Academy of Sciences. Gold was one of three young Cambridge scientists who in the 1950s...

22 MAY 192O * 22 JUNE 2O04 THOMAS GOLD died in Ithaca, New York, on 22 June 2004 from heart complications. He was the J. L. Wetherill Professor Emeritus of Astronomy at Cornell. Like many other Viennese Jewish refugees from Hitler (including his...

Thomas Gold, a maverick astronomer, died on June 22nd, aged 84 AS HENRY KISSINGER once observed, the reason academic disputes are so bitter is that the stakes are so low. Whether you regard understanding the origin of the universe as a low-stakes...