As New copy in Fine or better dust jacket. First printing with full number line. Exquisite unread copy: pages, covers and jacket are crisp, intact and unmarked. 1994. xi, 443pp. B&W maps. Size: 9.5" Tall. One of this century's most eminent scientist offers a revealing and charming account of his life and work. Mathematician, physicist, astronomer, cosmologist and originator of the term the 'Big Bang'-Sir Fred has always been ready and able to challenge established thinking. Contents include: The First World War; Forgotten Times; First Journeys to Cambridge; Dark Clouds Across the Sun; and The Last of the Old World; et.al 1st Printing 1st Printing 1st Printing.

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Title: Home Is Where the Wind Blows: Chapters from a Cosmologist's Life
Publisher: University Science Books
Publication Date: 1994
Language: English
ISBN 10: 093570227X
ISBN 13: 9780935702279
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition.
Condition: As New
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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Mathematician, physicist, astronomer and cosmologist, Sir Fred Hoyle is perhaps best known, in scientific circles, for his explanation of the origin of the elements from hydrogen nuclei in stars (a process known as nucleosynthesis) and for developing (with Sir Hermann Bondi and Thomas Gold) the controversial steady-state theory of the Universe (which assumes the continuous creation of matter). In 1950, in the last of a series of radio lectures on astronomy that he delivered on the air for the BBC, Hoyle coined the term "Big Bang" to characterize the competing expanding-Universe theory, which has since become the dominant paradigm. This term has now become a permanent addition to the language of cosmology. In this work, Hoyle offers an account of his life and work.

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Sir Fred Hoyle was a lecturer in mathematics (1945-1956) and Plumian professor of astronomy and experimental philosophy (1958-1972) at Cambridge.

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