RACIAL stereotypes are always dangerous, but Fred Hoyle would probably not have objected to the use of the term “gritty” in connection with his own ethnic origins in Yorkshire, in northern England.

Fred Hoyle, one of the most creative and provocative astrophysicists of the last half century, who helped explain how the heavier elements were formed and gave the name Big Bang, meant to be derisive, ...

Fred Hoyle, a British cosmologist born in 1915, held a professorship at Cambridge University. Hoyle is known for coining the term "Big Bang," despite being a proponent of the Steady State Theory, ...

Sir Fred Hoyle (1915–2001) was one of the major figures in 20th-century cosmology, but he's perhaps most famous for being spectacularly wrong, as his steady state theory of the universe, which he ...

If stars could talk, this is what they might have said to Fred Hoyle: “Shhhh.” But he told their secrets anyway. The British astronomer, who died late last month at 86, discovered how stars create ...

LONDON -- Sir Fred Hoyle, the astronomer who coined the term "big bang" but who never accepted that theory for the origin of the universe, has died at age 86 in Bournemouth, England. He became Britain ...

Conflict in the Cosmos: Fred Hoyle's Life in Science, by Simon Mitton, Washington, D.C.: Joseph Henry Press, 401 pages, $27.95 Fred Hoyle's Universe, by Jane Gregory, New York: Oxford University Press ...

Sir Fred Hoyle, the astrophysicist who coined the term “Big Bang” but never accepted that theory for the origin of the universe, has died. He was 86. Hoyle died Monday in Bournemouth, England, his ...

The astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle has died at the age of 86. Hoyle famously coined the phrase 'big bang' to describe the explosion in which the universe was born, but rejected that idea in favour of his ...

A colleague of the late Sir Fred Hoyle says his friend never got his due for explaining how the universe got its elements Sir Fred Hoyle, the late astrophysicist acclaimed for developing the theory of ...