Thomas Gold

Thomas Gold FRS
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
Alma mater	Trinity College, Cambridge
Known for	Steady-state theory Pulsars Abiogenic petroleum origin Deep hot biosphere Otoacoustic emission Nanoflare Gold effect
Awards	Fellow of the Royal Society (1964) John Frederick Lewis Award (1972)[1] Humboldt Prize (1979) Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1985)
Scientific career
Fields	Astrophysics, astronomy, biophysics, cosmology, geophysics, aerospace engineering
Institutions	University of Cambridge, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, Harvard University, Cornell University
Doctoral advisor	R. J. Pumphrey
Doctoral students	Stanton J. Peale[2] Peter Goldreich[2]

Thomas Gold^[3] (May 22, 1920 – June 22, 2004^[4]) was an Austrian-born American 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).^[4] 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 boundaries of academic and scientific disciplines, into biophysics, astronomy, aerospace engineering, and geophysics.