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BBC Cosmology Broadcast

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

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1949

Fred Hoyle28 March 1949

London · Science / Astronomy

Hoyle used the expression Big Bang during a BBC radio discussion while criticizing finite-age cosmology.

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Fred Hoyle

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