[Ads-l] Antedating of "Big Bang Theory"

[Peter Reitan]

There is a 2014 article on JSTOR, on the history of the naming of the "Big Bang," in the cosmological sence. It traces it to the 1949 Fred Hoyle usage.


Kragh, Helge. “Naming the Big Bang.” Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 44, no. 1 (2014): 3–36. https://doi.org/10.1525/hsns.2014.44.1.3.


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=0ACorrection: I copied the wrong citation into the email (Hoyle used the t=
erm again a year later). The correct one is:=0A =0AHoyle, Fred. =E2=80=9CCo=
ntinuous Creation.=E2=80=9D The Listener, 7 April 1949, 568. Gale Primary S=
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=0A=0A=0A=0AI have it from March 1949. A BBC radio broadcast, astronomer Fr=
ed Hoyle speaking, with a transcript published a few days later:=0A=0AHoyle=
, Fred. =E2=80=9CMan=E2=80=99s Place in the Expanding Universe.=E2=80=9D Th=
e Listener, 9 March 1950, 420=E2=80=9321. Gale Primary Sources: The Listene=
r.=0A=0A"We now come to the question of applying the observational tests to=
 earlier theories. These theories were based on the hypothesis that all the=
 matter in the universe was created in one big bang at a particular time in=
 the remote past."=0A=0A[ https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/big-=
bang ]( https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/big-bang ) =0A=0A=0A--=
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ADS-L] Antedating of "Big Bang Theory"=0A=0A=0A=0ABig Bang theory (OED 1959=
)=0A=0A1951 _Sunday Mail_ (Brisbane) 30 Sept. 7/2 (Newspapers.com) The big =
bang theory about creation being a matter of 15 minutes =E2=80=93 3000,000,=
000 years ago.=0A=0AFred Shapiro=0A=0A-------------------------------------=
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