William Gilbert William Harvey Isaac Newton Charles Darwin James Clerk Maxwell Arthur Eddington Fred Hoyle

Newton and the Principia 1687 First edition London 1713 Second edition Cambridge 1696 Warden of the Mint President Royal Society In the 1670s works exclusively on theology (ancient chronology, the Trinity)

Newton’s Principia

James Clerk Maxwell ( ) Student at Cambridge 1850 Professor in London first Professor of Experimental Physics, established the new physics laboratory 1873 Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism

Georges Lemaître and the Big Bang Ordained Belgium23 September 1923, arrived at St Edmund’s House (College) 30 September to work for one year with Eddington Pioneer in using Einstein’s General Relativity to model the universe 1927: The expanding universe (Fireworks Universe), primeval atom, and Big Bang. His model was ignored for half a century, then became mainstream with the discovery of dark energy

Fred Hoyle Worked in astrophysics, cosmology (steady state theory) and the origin of the chemical elements. Knew Eddington and Lemaître.

Childhood in Yorkshire Born 24 June Father an entrepreneurial cloth trader, mother teacher and pianist. Comfortably off: owned two substantial Victorian villas Place of birth Gilstead, on the edge of the moors near to Bingley West Yorkshire, the Bronte country Father enlisted in Machine Gun Corps, served Returned a broken man. Lost employment during the Slump, and never worked again.Despised the government, the establishment, military top brass. Fred very unhappy at school. Frequently played truant and learned very little. Early starter at reading and arithmetic Spent a huge amount of time roaming the countryside and Bingley.

Stellar Nucleosynthesis Hydrogen Burning and beyond

Origin of elements