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2 unusual facts about Geoffrey Burbidge


Jayant Narlikar

Facts and Speculations in Cosmology, with G. Burbridge, Cambridge University Press 2008, ISBN 978-0-521-13424-8

A Different Approach to Cosmology, with G. Burbridge and Fred Hoyle, Cambridge University Press 2000, ISBN 0-521-66223-0


Haute-Provence Observatory

Foreign observers first used the observatory in 1949, when Geoffrey and Margaret Burbidge visited.

Steady State theory

Quasi-steady state cosmology (QSS) was proposed in 1993 by Fred Hoyle, Geoffrey Burbidge, and Jayant V. Narlikar as a new incarnation of the steady state ideas meant to explain additional features unaccounted for in the initial proposal.


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