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While we're on the subject...Who is best known for helping establish nucleosynthesis? [His determination of the energy level of excited Carbon I believe was his triumph.]
Arneb wrote:
My first anwer to that one was:
That would be Hans Bethe, together with Carl-Friedrich von Weizsäcker.
But since there is that hint: That would be Frank Hoyle - he coined the phrase "Big Bang" to ridicule the concept.
So which is true? Back later, gotta get to work now...
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Wouldn't that be
Sir Fred Hoyle? Arneb, I'm sure you meant that, but I just wanted to point that out.
Edit add: BTW, I quoted Sagan on Hoyle here:
http://www.badastronomy.com/phpBB/vi...=486272#486272
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