From: Damien Broderick (damienb@unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Thu Jul 03 2003 - 20:08:00 MDT
At 10:38 AM 7/3/03 -0700, Hal wrote:
>> http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0306050
>Is this the same Thomas Gold famous for his "deep earth gas" hypothesis?
Yes, but more relevantly this is the same Tommy Gold who with Bondi, Hoyle
and others eludicated how the goddamn Sun burns in the first place,
invented the Steady State theory (too bad, good try though), and was the
first person to suggest in print that pulsars are spinning neutron stars:
Thomas Gold
Biographical Information
Professor Emeritus of Astronomy at Cornell University;
founder and for 20 years director of Cornell Center for Radiophysics and
Space Research.
Fellow, Royal Society (London)
Member, National Academy of Sciences (US)
Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Member, American Philosophical Society
Fellow, American Geophysical Union
Honorary Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge
Gold Medal, Royal Astronomical Society (UK)
Doctor of Science, Cambridge University
Honorary M.A. Harvard University
Previous employment:
John L. Wetherill Professor of Astronomy, Cornell University; Chairman,
Department of Astronomy
Assistant Vice President for Research, Cornell University
Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy, Harvard University
Chief Assistant to British Astronomer Royal
Lecturer in advanced physics, Cambridge University
Radar development work, British Admiralty during World War II
280 publications in various fields of science, including cosmology,
mechanism of mammalian hearing,
nature of pulsars as rotating neutron stars, aspects of solar system
research, origin of planetary
hydrocarbons. For 7 years a member of the President's Space Science Panel
(US).
Invited Lectureships:
Vanuxem Lecture, Princeton University
Welch Lecture, University of Toronto
Milne Lecture, Oxford University
George Darwin Lecture, Royal Astronomical Society, London
Lindsay Lecture, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Damien Broderick
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