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	* 1967 - "[[The Nature of Time]]" ([http://www.amazon.com/Nature-Time-Gold-D-L-Schumacher/dp/B000K9ZHIQ/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224536890&sr=8-9 Read in full])		* 1967 - "[[The Nature of Time]]" ([http://www.amazon.com/Nature-Time-Gold-D-L-Schumacher/dp/B000K9ZHIQ/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224536890&sr=8-9 Read in full])

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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Thomas Gold
| image = Thomas Gold 554.jpg
| alt = Thomas Gold
| birth_date = {{birth date|1920|05|22|mf=y}}
| death_date = {{birth date|2004|06|22|mf=y}}
| fields = [[Professor Emeritus of Astronomy]]
| residence = Ithaca, NY, United States
| nationality = Austrian / USA
| known_for = [[Origin of Hydrocarbon Fuels]], [[Cosmology]], [[Steady State Universe]]
}}

Copyright ? Cornell University

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Thomas "Tommy" Gold, a brilliant and controversial figure in 20th century science and professor emeritus of astronomy at Cornell University, died June 22 at Cayuga Medical Center, Ithaca, N.Y., after a long battle with heart disease. He was 84 years of age.

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. Few scientists ever attempt what Gold made a career of, staking their reputations on ideas that radically challenge the methods and assumptions of an entire discipline.

Said Joseph Veverka, chairman of Cornell's Department of Astronomy and a longtime colleague: "Tommy will be remembered fondly by all of us for his incisive and provocative ideas, for his sincere dedication to his colleagues, as well as for his wide-ranging contributions to physics and astronomy extending over such varied topics as the steady-state theory of the universe, pulsars, the lunar regolith and the geochemistry of the Earth's mantle."

His "steady-state" theory, for years considered by many cosmologists a possible alternative to the "big-bang" theory of the origin of the universe. Gold developed the idea of a steady-state universe that has no beginning or end and in which matter is constantly being created, with fellow astrophysicists Fred Hoyle and Hermann Bondi while a graduate student at Cambridge. 

 

==Books==

* 1998 - "[[The Deep Hot Biosphere]]" ([http://www.amazon.com/Deep-Hot-Biosphere-Thomas-Gold/dp/0387985468 Read in full])
* 1967 - "[[The Nature of Time]]" ([http://www.amazon.com/Nature-Time-Gold-D-L-Schumacher/dp/B000K9ZHIQ/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224536890&sr=8-9 Read in full])

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