Thomas Gold (May 22, 1920 - June 22, 2004) was an Austrian astrophysicist, a professor of astronomy at Cornell University, and a member of the US National Academy of Sciences. Gold was one of three young Cambridge scientists who in the 1950s proposed the now mostly abandoned 'steady state' hypothesis of the universe. Gold's work crossed academic and scientific boundaries, into biophysics, astrophysics, space engineering, and geophysics. Wikipedia
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This discovery was made in deep wells that were drilled in the central part of the crystalline Baltic Shield, on the initiative of T. Gold. web.archive.org/web/20021004123112/www.people.cornell.edu...
The Golden Touch No one in the United States has been more associated with the theory of abiogenic petroleum than Thomas Gold, a professor of astronomy at Cornell University, now retired. www.aapg.org/explorer/2002/11nov/abiogenic.cfm
This held centre stage for several years, with Fred Hoyle as its underpinning cosmological philosopher, Hermann Bondi in mathematical support, and Tommy Gold as its extrovert propagandist. www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,1245819,00.html
Gold's reputation as a Renaissance man was surpassed only by his penchant for unconventional theories -- from the origin of the universe to the source of petroleum. www.news.cornell.edu/releases/June04/Thomas_Gold_obit.hrs...
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Hoyle and Gold remained unconvinced, and Gold later lent his support to Hoyle's "modified steady state theory" which suggested an infinite number of localised big bangs as part of the steady state process. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/06/25/...