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Cosmic Helium Abundance

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

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1964

Fred Hoyle1964

Cambridge · Science / Astronomy

Hoyle and Richard Tayler argued that stellar processes alone could not explain the observed cosmic helium abundance.

Names involved

Fred Hoyle

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