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Thomas Gold

Thomas Gold
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Born (1920-05-22)May 22, 1920
Vienna, Austria
Died June 22, 2004(2004-06-22) (aged 84)
Ithaca, New York
Nationality

Austrian British

American
Fields Astrophysics, astronomy, biophysics,
cosmology, geophysics, aerospace engineering
Institutions University of Cambridge, Royal Observatory, Greenwich,
Harvard University, Cornell University
Alma mater Trinity College, Cambridge
Doctoral advisor R. J. Pumphrey
Doctoral students Stanton J. Peale
Peter Goldreich
Known for Steady State theory, Abiogenic petroleum origin
Notable awards John Frederick Lewis Award (1972)
Humboldt Prize (1979)
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1985)

Austrian British

Thomas Gold (May 22, 1920 – June 22, 2004) was an Austrian-born astrophysicist, 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 academic and scientific boundaries, into biophysics, astronomy, aerospace engineering, and geophysics.

Gold was born on May 22, 1920 in Vienna, Austria to Max Gold, a wealthy Jewish industrialist (pre-war) who ran one of Austria's largest mining and metal fabrication companies, and German former actress Josefine Martin. Following the economic downfall of the European mining industry in the late 1920s, Max Gold moved his family to Berlin, where he had taken a job as director of a metal trading company. Following the start of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler's anti-Jewish campaigns in 1933, Gold and his family left Germany because of his father's heritage. The family traveled through Europe for the next few years. Gold attended boarding school at the Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz in Zuoz, Switzerland, where he quickly proved to be a clever, competitive and physically and mentally aggressive individual. Gold finished his schooling at Zuoz in 1938, and fled with his family to England after the German invasion of Austria in early 1938. Gold entered Trinity College, Cambridge in 1939 and began studying mechanical sciences. In May 1940, just as Hitler was commencing his advance in Belgium and France, Gold was sent into internment as an enemy alien by the British government. It was on the first night of internment, at an army barracks in Bury St Edmunds, that he met his future collaborator and close friend, Hermann Bondi.


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