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Evsc iobserve12/28/2023 ![]() Smith 2.7-meter Telescope was just being completed. Wilson Observatory, David's sights were set on the University of Texas where the Harlan J. While he did some stellar spectroscopy at Caltech's Mt. Upon graduation in 1967, David left England for America where he worked for two years at the California Institute of Technology. For David, however, this remark immediately drew him to Hoyle as a role model. While at Oxford, he was advised by a "very kind lady on the faculty" that Fred Hoyle was "not quite a proper scientist" because of his sometimes controversial ideas about astronomy. Upon graduating from grammar school, David enrolled in Oxford University where he completed both his undergraduate and graduate studies. Regardless, he became enamored of the study of astronomy and, specifically, the build up of atomic elements in stars, called "nucleosynthesis." "I don't know why I chose this book I may have just rummaged around and found it," he says. David went to this bookstore and, from its shelves, he pulled Frontiers of Astronomy by Fred Hoyle, a book about general astronomy. As a junior there, he won a competition for which the prize was thirty shillings toward the purchase of a book from a local shop. He attended an all-boys grammar school (i.e., high school). ![]() David grew up in Kent, England, just south of London.
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