Historical place archive

Pasadena in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Pasadena in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

6 records6 event labels1 people1955–1967

Historical events in Pasadena

1955

1955
Caltech Collaboration
Fred Hoyle · Astronomy

Works with nuclear physicists at Caltech on stellar element formation.

1960

1960
Nuclear Cosmochronology
Fred Hoyle · Astronomy

Hoyle and William Fowler studied radioactive nuclei as clocks for estimating the ages of the Galaxy and Solar System.

1963

1963
Strong Radio Sources
Fred Hoyle · Astronomy

Hoyle and William Fowler investigated physical explanations for powerful extragalactic radio sources.

1964

1964
Neutrino Processes in Massive Stars
Fred Hoyle · Astronomy

Hoyle and Fowler studied neutrino losses, pair formation, and late evolutionary stages of massive stars.

1964
Relativistic Astrophysics
Fred Hoyle · Astronomy

Hoyle joined Geoffrey and Margaret Burbidge and William Fowler in analysing compact objects and relativistic astrophysical processes.

1967

1967
High-Temperature Element Synthesis
Fred Hoyle · Astronomy

Hoyle, Robert Wagoner, and William Fowler analysed element synthesis at extremely high temperatures.

Provenance

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These entries are generated from stored World History Database records whose country and place fields match Great Britain and Pasadena. Names, dates, event labels and descriptions are reviewed and normalised as the database develops. Historical place names may not match modern administrative boundaries.

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