William Gilbert1544-1604

William Harvey1578-1637

Isaac Newton1642-1727

Charles Darwin1809-1882

James Clerk Maxwell1831-1879

Arthur Eddington1882-1944

Fred Hoyle1915-2001

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)

Newton’s Principia

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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

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

Fred Hoyle 1915 - 2001

Worked in astrophysics, cosmology (steady state theory) and the origin of the chemical elements. Knew Eddington and Lemaître.

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.

Stellar Nucleosynthesis

Hydrogen Burning and beyond

Origin of elements