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Thomas Gold

1920 - 2004

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Thomas Gold (May 22, 1920 – June 22, 2004) was an Austrian-born astrophysicist, who also held British and American citizenship. He was a professor of astronomy at Cornell University, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the Royal Society (London). Gold was one of three young Cambridge scientists who in 1948 proposed the now mostly abandoned "steady state" hypothesis of the universe. Gold's work crossed boundaries of academic and scientific disciplines, into biophysics, astronomy, aerospace engineering, and geophysics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Gold is the 230th most popular astronomer (up from 239th in 2019), the 498th most popular biography from Austria (up from 562nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Austrian Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Thomas Gold ranks 230 out of 644. Before him are Antonio de Ulloa, Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin, Horace Parnell Tuttle, Alexis Bouvard, William Wallace Campbell, and Jérôme Eugène Coggia. After him are Edward L. G. Bowell, Tamara Smirnova, Johannes Fabricius, Robert T. A. Innes, César-François Cassini de Thury, and Giovanni Dondi dell'Orologio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Thomas Gold ranks 139. Before him are Miguel Delibes, Henrietta Lacks, Marie Tharp, Andrew V. McLaglen, Yevgeny Dragunov, and Richard Adams. After him are Dick Francis, Alf Ramsey, John Maynard Smith, Paik Sun-yup, Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, and Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani. Among people deceased in 2004, Thomas Gold ranks 97. Before him are Fred Lawrence Whipple, Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, Arnold Orville Beckman, Irina Press, Ann Miller, and Russ Meyer. After him are Miklós Fehér, John Maynard Smith, Umberto Agnelli, Mercedes McCambridge, Walter Frentz, and Artie Shaw.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Thomas Gold ranks 498 out of 1,424. Before him are Maria von Trapp (1905), Petar Brzica (1917), Leopold Figl (1902), Ilse Aichinger (1921), Victor Babeș (1854), and Alexander Korda (1893). After him are Ernst Marischka (1893), Sylvester Stadler (1910), Ernst Ocwirk (1926), Hermann Gmeiner (1919), Maria Schicklgruber (1795), and Freddy Quinn (1931).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Austria

Among astronomers born in Austria, Thomas Gold ranks 2. Before him are Edwin Ernest Salpeter (1924). After him are Maurice Loewy (1833).

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