TY - BOOK ID - 77944129 TI - A journey with Fred Hoyle AU - Wickramasinghe, Chandra AU - Wickramasinghe, Kamala PY - 2013 SN - 1299463177 9814436135 9789814436137 9814436127 9789814436120 9781299463172 PB - Singapore Hackensack, N.J. World Scientific DB - UniCat KW - Astronomers KW - Life KW - Cosmic dust. KW - Dust KW - Interstellar matter KW - Abiogenesis KW - Biogenesis KW - Germ theory KW - Heterogenesis KW - Life, Origin of KW - Life (Biology) KW - Origin of life KW - Plasmogeny KW - Plasmogony KW - Evolution (Biology) KW - Exobiology KW - Spontaneous generation KW - Origin. KW - Origin KW - Wickramasinghe, N. C. KW - Hoyle, Fred, KW - Hoyle, F. KW - Khoĭl, Fred, KW - Hūyl, Firid, KW - هويل، فرد KW - Wickramasinghe, Nalin Chandra, KW - Wickramasinghe, Chandra UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77944129 AB - This is the story of the author's unique scientific journey with one of the most remarkable men of 20th century science. The journey begins in Sri Lanka, the author's native country, with his childhood acquaintance with Fred Hoyle's writings. The action then moves to Cambridge, where the famous Hoyle-Wickramasinghe collaborations begin. A research programme which was started in 1962 on the carbonaceous nature of interstellar dust leads, over the next two decades, to developments that are continued in both Cambridge and Cardiff. These developments prompt Hoyle and the author to postulate the or ER -