Biographies: Fred Hoyle - Writer

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A British writer, astronomer, and university professor, born on June 24, 1915, in Bingley, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, as Frederick Hoyle. He was appointed Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at Cambridge University and was the founding director of the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge. In 1983, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his role in a collaboration on a paper that demonstrated how elements are synthesized in the nuclear reactors of stars. H married once. His works include A for Andromeda (1961), A come Andromeda (1972), and A for Andromeda (2006). He died on August 20, 2001, in Bournemouth, Dorset, England, United Kingdom.

• 7 February 2023
• Toqa Hesham