Re: David Marjanovic

[Phil Bigelow <bigelowp@juno.com>]

Dh'OH!!!

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On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 16:25:17 -0500 Tim Williams
<twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com> writes:
> Phil Bigelow wrote:
> 
> >Then of course, there are people like the famed astronomer Fred 
> Whipple,
> >who considered Archaeopteryx's plumage to be a hoaxer's creation,
> 
> Don't you mean astronomer Fred Hoyle, not Fred Whipple?
> 
> Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe (1986).  "Archaeopteryx: The 
> Primordial Bird." A Case of Fossil Forgery, Christopher Davies 
> Publishers, 
> Swansea.
> 
> Says John Maddox (2001; Nature 413: 270):  "Fred Hoyle, who died on 
> 20 
> August at the age of 86, was the most imaginative of men, a kind of 
> 
> Leonardo. He made monumental contributions to astrophysics and 
> cosmology, 
> and was a brilliant popularizer (and science-fiction writer and 
> occasional 
> playwright). He also put his name to much rubbish and was embroiled 
> in 
> controversy for most of his life. [snip] The most egregious example 
> was the 
> allegation that the British Natural History Museum's specimen of 
> _Archaeopteryx_ is a forgery. Even his best friends were at a loss 
> to know 
> why he behaved in such a way in this and other instances."
> 
> (Incidentally, it was Hoyle who coined the term "Big Bang", as a 
> sarcarstic 
> aside in a 1952 broadcast.)
> 
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