[ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
FRED HOYLE’S
Jane Gregory
1
UNIVERSE
3
Great Clarendon Street, Oxford
ox2 6dp
Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford.
It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship,
and education by publishing worldwide in
Oxford New York
Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi
Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi
New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto
With o
ces in
Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece
Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore
South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam
Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press
in the UK and in certain other countries
Published in the United States
by Oxford University Press Inc., New York
© Jane Gregory 2005
The moral rights of the author have been asserted
Database right Oxford University Press (maker)
First published 2005
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced,
stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means,
without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press,
or as expressly permitted by law, or under terms agreed with the appropriate
reprographics rights organizations. Enquiries concerning reproduction
outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department,
Oxford University Press, at the address above
You must not circulate this book in any other binding or cover
and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Data available
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Data available
ISBN 0–19–850791–7
13579108642
Typeset by Re
fi
neCatch Limited, Bungay, Su
ff
olk
Printed in Great Britain by Clays Ltd, St Ives plc
Contents
Acknowledgements
ix
1 Coming to light
1
c ambition; undergraduate life at Cambridge;
becoming a mathematician; graduate studies; marriage to Barbara
fi
War posting; radar; meeting Bondi and Gold; radar problems; a trip to the
USA; the origin of the elements; return to Cambridge
19
3 Into the limelight
36
A new cosmology; post-war gloom; steady-state theory in the spotlight;
The
Nature of the Universe
; the Massey conference; confronting Ryle
4 New world
58
Out of the doldrums; an American road trip; getting noticed at Caltech;
meeting Willy Fowler;
nding a new state of carbon; the cosmological
controversy; religion and politics;
A Decade of Decision
fi
5 Under fire
78
Fowler, the Burbidges and the origin of the elements; a challenge from Ryle;
Frontiers of Astronomy
; cosmological controversy
The origin of the elements and B
2
FH;
The Black Cloud
; Clarkson
Close; the Plumian Chair; the age of the universe;
Ossian’s Ride;
Alchemy of Love
94
7 Eclipsed
111
Funding for science; the politics of science; an idea for an institute; the
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics; another
challenge from Ryle
Schooldays and scienti
2 Hut no. 2
6 New Genesis
vi
Contents
8 Fighting for space
129
Responding to Ryle; trouble for the institute; problems with computers;
A for
Andromeda
on television
; Rockets in Ursa Major
on stage; the
institute goes to Sussex
9 Storm clouds
147
air;
Fifth Planet
; what, and
where, are quasars?; curing the Los Angeles smog; a new theory of gravity
(without apples); Roger Tayler and the helium abundance
ff
10 ‘Dear Mr Hogg’
164
Problems at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical
Physics; problems at the Treasury for the Sussex institute; Hoyle lobbies the
Minister; Hoyle makes a decision and takes to the hills; an invitation from
the Minister; the Vice-Chancellor’s Special Committee on the Hoyle
Problem
11 His institute
186
A change of Government;
Of Men and Galaxies
; more trouble for the
institute; a blow for steady-state theory; Hoyle despairs of Cambridge; the
institute comes to Cambridge
12 The end of the beginning
208
Establishing the institute;
October the First is Too Late;
more on the
quasar redshift; steady-state theory revisited; Stonehenge is an observatory;
Australia will host a telescope for the southern hemisphere; organic polymers
in space
13 The Astronomer Hoyle
228
Problems at the institute; Northern Hemisphere Review; an attack on the
Royal Observatories; the new Astronomer Royal; the merger at Cambridge;
Sir Fred
14 The beginning of the end
246
Resignation,
The Inferno,
the Anglo-Australian Telescope
Moving to the Lake District; how to write science
fi
ction; pulsars; controversy
over Nobel Prize; Hoyle’s 60th birthday
266
Hoyle on television; the Ferranti ATLAS a
15 On the loose
[ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]