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BIG BANG THEORY
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Albert Einstein
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Edwin Hubble
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Fred Hoyle
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Penzias and Wilson
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Detailed explanation-1: -Fred Hoyle famously coined the term “big bang” in 1949, but it took a long time to catch on. Helge Kragh shows how the story of the name is also the story of how modern cosmology emerged.
Detailed explanation-2: -One irony of modern science is that Hoyle coined the term “big bang” in 1950 while he was doing a series of radio lectures on astronomy.
Detailed explanation-3: -Hoyle is known for his popular science works, including The Nature of the Universe (1951), Astronomy and Cosmology (1975), and The Origin of the Universe and the Origin of Religion (1993). He also wrote novels, plays, short stories, and an autobiography, The Small World of Fred Hoyle (1986).
Detailed explanation-4: -English astronomer Fred Hoyle is credited with coining the term “Big Bang” during a talk for a March 1949 BBC Radio broadcast, saying: “These theories were based on the hypothesis that all the matter in the universe was created in one big bang at a particular time in the remote past."