The scientific legacy of Fred Hoyle / edited by Douglas Gough.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

xv, 249 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 26 cm

Fred Hoyle's major work in the context of astronomy and astrophysics today / Wallace L. W. Sargent -- Sir Fred Hoyle and the theory of the synthesis of the elements / David Arnett -- Fred Hoyle: contributions to the theory of galaxy formation / George Efstathiou -- Highlights of Fred Hoyle's work on interstellar matter and star formation / Philip M. Solomon -- Accretion / Sir Hermann Bondi -- From dust to life / Chandra Wickramasinghe -- Worlds without end or beginning / John D. Barrow -- Evolutionary cosmologies: then and now / Malcolm S. Longair -- Alternative ideas in cosmology / Jayant N. Narlikar -- Red Giants: then and now / John Faulkner -- Modern alchemy: Fred Hoyle and element building by neutron capture / E. Margaret Burbidge -- Concluding remarks / Geoffrey Burbidge.

Includes bibliographical references and index.