File 4 - Frontiers of astronomy 1975: conference in honor [sic] of Sir Fred Hoyle's 60th birthday, San Giorgio Island, Venice, July 15-19, 1975

Folder of items related to the conference.

Includes:

Colour photograph of conference participants (254mm x 201mm)

Scientific program (typescript, 5 p.)

List of participants (typescript, 4 p.)

Letters, telegrams and a musical sketch of congratulations from:

The Private Secretary to the Prime Minister;

Indira Gandhi (Prime Minister of India);

Giovanni Leone (President of Italy);

Pierre Elliott Trudeau (Prime Minister of Canada);

Harold Brown and Robert F. Christy (California Institute of Technology);

Dale R. Corson (President of Cornell University);

C. Peter Magrath (President of the University of Minnesota);

Master (Philip Nicholas Seton Mansergh), President (John Anthony Crook) and friends at St. John's College, Cambridge;

friends and colleagues at the Kellogg Radiation Laboratory (Pasadena, California);

Vincent Reddish and colleagues (Royal Observatory, Edinburgh);

Radiophysics Department at Sydney University (sent from Paul Wild);

Scientific American (sent from Gerard Piel Dennis Flanagan);

Melville Bell Grosvenor and the 'nine million National Geographic members';

Norman Hackerman (Chairman of the National Science Board);

Philip Handler (President of National Academy of Sciences, United States);

Alan Hodgkin (President of the Royal Society);

M.O. Robins (Director of Astronomy and Science, Science Research Council);

H. Guyford Stevens (Director, National Science Foundation, United States);

John Carver (Physics Department, Adelaide University);

Tom Aston (HMBCG [sic], Los Angeles);

John Bahcall (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton);

Alan and Jean Cottrell;

Chushiro Hayashi;

J.W. Dungey (Imperial College) (with personal recollection of FH as supervisor);

Asa Briggs, Roger Tayler and Leon Mestel;

Bernard and Josephine Miles;

Yuval Neeman;

Claus Rolf (Universität Münster);

Lyman Spitzer, Jr. (Princeton University Observatory);

Donald and Mary Shane;

Walter Sullivan (New York Times science editor) (with humorous poem);

Leo [Smit] (2 p. with musical sketch);

Ya. B. Zeldovich (Space Research Institute, Academy of Sciences, USSR);

Phil Daly;

Article from Il Gazzettino (17 July 1975), 'Convegno a Venezia sulle frontiere dell'astronomia'.

(typescript, autograph manuscript and newspaper cutting, 37 p.)

Transcript of Scientifically speaking broadcast on BBC Radio Three on 30 July 1975, 9.35pm. On the topic of 'Frontiers of astronomy – 1975', featuring FH, William A. Fowler, David N. Schramm, Beatrice M. Tinsley, Martin J. Rees and Stanford E. Woosley. (Photocopy of typescript, 24 p.)