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William Gilbert 1544-1604 William Harvey 1578-1637 Isaac Newton 1642-1727 Charles Darwin

William Gilbert 1544-1604 William Harvey 1578-1637 Isaac Newton 1642-1727 Charles Darwin 1809-1882 James Clerk Maxwell 1831-1879 Arthur Eddington 1882-1944 Fred Hoyle 1915-2001. Newton and the Principia 1687 First edition London 1713 Second edition Cambridge

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William Gilbert 1544-1604 William Harvey 1578-1637 Isaac Newton 1642-1727 Charles Darwin

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  1. William Gilbert 1544-1604 William Harvey 1578-1637 Isaac Newton 1642-1727 Charles Darwin 1809-1882 James Clerk Maxwell 1831-1879 Arthur Eddington 1882-1944 Fred Hoyle 1915-2001

  2. Newton and the Principia 1687 First edition London 1713 Second edition Cambridge 1696 Warden of the Mint 1703 - 1727 President Royal Society In the 1670s works exclusively on theology (ancient chronology, the Trinity)

  3. Newton’s Principia

  4. James Clerk Maxwell (1831-79) Student at Cambridge 1850 Professor in London 1860 1871 first Professor of Experimental Physics, established the new physics laboratory 1873 Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism

  5. Georges Lemaître and the Big Bang Ordained Belgium23 September 1923, arrived at St Edmund’s House (College) 30 September to work for one year with Eddington Pioneer in using Einstein’s General Relativity to model the universe 1927: The expanding universe (Fireworks Universe), primeval atom, and Big Bang. His model was ignored for half a century, then became mainstream with the discovery of dark energy

  6. Fred Hoyle 1915 - 2001 Worked in astrophysics, cosmology (steady state theory) and the origin of the chemical elements. Knew Eddington and Lemaître.

  7. Childhood in Yorkshire • Born 24 June 1915. Father an entrepreneurial cloth trader, mother teacher and pianist. Comfortably off: owned two substantial Victorian villas • Place of birth Gilstead, on the edge of the moors near to Bingley West Yorkshire, the Bronte country • Father enlisted in Machine Gun Corps, served 1915 - 1918. Returned a broken man. Lost employment during the Slump, and never worked again.Despised the government, the establishment, military top brass. • Fred very unhappy at school. Frequently played truant and learned very little. Early starter at reading and arithmetic • Spent a huge amount of time roaming the countryside and Bingley.

  8. Stellar Nucleosynthesis Hydrogen Burning and beyond

  9. Origin of elements

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