Mitton, Simon

Conflict in the Cosmos: Fred Hoyle's Life in Science

Joseph Henry Press, March 2005. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. Item #389781
ISBN: 0309093139

While other British astronomers were specializing in narrow areas, says Mitton (astronomy, Cambridge U.), Hoyle claimed the entire celestial realm--the universe and all its contents--as his field, and proceeded to transform the discipline during the third quarter of the 20th century. Much of the insight in the biography is gleaned from Hoyle's asso.

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