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Plumian Professorship

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

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1958

Fred Hoyle1958

Cambridge · Science / Astronomy

Hoyle became Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at Cambridge.

Names involved

Fred Hoyle

Provenance

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