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Conflict in the Cosmos: Fred Hoyle's Life in Science by Simon Mitton Joseph Henry Press, 2005; $27.95
To those who came of age in the 1950s, the cosmologist Fred Hoyle (1915-2001), like Carl Sagan a generation later, was the popular voice of science. Hoyle's Frontiers of Astronomy, published three years before the October 1957 launch of Sputnik I, became an instant best seller in both Great Britain and the United States, inspiring legions of overachieving adolescents--including many of today's practicing physicists and astronomers--to choose careers in research. For masses of radio listeners, Hoyle's talks on life, the universe, and everything in between, delivered in his folksy Yorkshire accent, were a...
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