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Royal Society Election Certificate

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

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1957

Fred Hoyle21 March 1957

London · Science / Astronomy

The Royal Society elected Hoyle for major contributions to stellar structure, accretion, nucleosynthesis, and cosmology.

Names involved

Fred Hoyle

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