As a science-fiction author, he penned bestsellers like The Black Cloud and A for Andromeda.  
As a science-fiction author, he penned bestsellers like The Black Cloud and A for Andromeda.  Knighted in 1972, he has held professorships at Cal Tech, Cornell, and Cambridge.  His best-known scientific work was done in collaboration with Herman Bondi and Thomas Gold.  FTP, name this proponent of the steady-state theory who derisively coined the term "Big Bang."
As a science-fiction author, he penned bestsellers like The Black Cloud and A for Andromeda.  
Sir Fred Hoyle