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Tommy
Gold (1920-2004)
Born
in Austria, he was briefly interned in Britain in 1940. There
he met Hermann Bondi. Later they worked with Fred Hoyle on radar, and
proposed the steady state theory in 1948. Gold moved to America. He was
the first to suggest, in 1968, that pulsars are rapidly rotating neutron
stars. Less omniscient was his suggestion that the lunar surface might
be a thick dust structure that would collapse under the weight of a lunar
landing vehicle. His suggestion that hydrocarbons, rather than being nonrenewable
fossil remains, mainly come from deep within the Earth is yet to be proven. |