Aug. 20, 2001: Cosmologist Fred Hoyle dies

Born in 1915 in England, cosmologist Fred Hoyle attend Cambridge University, where he would later become a professor. Among other things, Hoyle would become known as the man who coined the term big bang – but, ironically, he used the phrase in his criticism of the theory. Instead of believing that the universe originated in Continue reading "Aug. 20, 2001: Cosmologist Fred Hoyle dies" The post…