Fred Hoyle: An Online Exhibition

Hoyle's Youth

Fred Hoyle showed early mathematical promise but preferred to play truant than sit in school. He did, however, manage to win a scholarship to Bingley Grammar School in 1926. Here he excelled, skipping his fourth year, and showing such promise that the headmaster, Alan Smailes, encouraged him to sit the entrance examination at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Hoyle was unsuccessful on his first attempt, but having passed his higher certificate in 1933 and having won a grant from the local education authority, he eventually gained a place at Emmanuel College, Cambridge to read Natural Sciences.

The Hoyle Family | Chemical Balance | Scholarship Examination Papers | A Letter to his Father | Hoyle's Telescope

Photograph of Fred Hoyle at about 3 years old

Hoyle's Youth | Hoyle in Cambridge | Steady-State Universe | Stellar Nucleosynthesis | Hoyle vs Ryle | Institute of Theoretical Astronomy | Hoyle on the Radio | Hoyle the Writer | Hoyle the Polymath | Honours and Medals

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