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Accretion by Stars

Great Britain · Science / Astronomy. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1940

Fred Hoyle1940

Cambridge · Science / Astronomy

Hoyle and Lyttleton developed an influential model for gravitational accretion of interstellar material by moving stars.

Names involved

Fred Hoyle

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