Big Bang: the etymology of a name
Abstract
Fred Hoyle famously coined the term "big bang" in 1949, but it took a long time to catch on. Helge Kragh shows how the story of the name is also the story of how modern cosmology emerged.
- Publication:
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Astronomy and Geophysics
- Pub Date:
- April 2013
- DOI:
- 10.1093/astrogeo/att035
- Bibcode:
- 2013A&G....54b2.28K