Editing Fred Hoyle (section)

===Nobel Prize for Physics===
Hoyle was also at the centre of two unrelated controversies involving the politics for selecting recipients of the [[Nobel Prize for Physics]]. The first arose when the 1974 prize went in part to [[Antony Hewish]] for his leading role in the discovery of pulsars. Hoyle made an off-the-cuff remark to a reporter in Montreal that "Yes, [[Jocelyn Bell Burnell|Jocelyn Bell]] was the actual discoverer, not Hewish, who was her supervisor, so she should have been included." This remark received widespread international coverage. Worried about being misunderstood, Hoyle carefully<ref>{{cite web|url=https://astro.sites.clemson.edu/NucleoArchive/PhotoList/1970s/75letterHC.html|title=Photo Archive in Nuclear Astrophysics|website=astro.sites.clemson.edu|accessdate=8 May 2014}}</ref> composed a letter of explanation to ''[[The Times]]''.<ref name="GuardianObit"/>

The 1983 prize went in part to [[William Alfred Fowler]] "for his theoretical and experimental studies of the nuclear reactions of importance in the formation of the chemical elements in the universe" despite Hoyle having been the inventor of the theory of [[nucleosynthesis]] in the stars with two research papers<ref>"The synthesis of the elements from hydrogen" MNRAS 106, 343 (1946); "The synthesis of the elements from carbon to nickel" ''Astrophys. J. Suppl''. 1, 121–146 (1954)</ref> published shortly after WWII. So some suspicion arose that Hoyle was denied the third share of this prize because of his earlier public disagreement with the 1974 award.<ref>Mitton, Simon, ''Fred Hoyle a life in science'', pp.&nbsp;301–305, Cambridge University Press, 2011</ref> British scientist [[Harry Kroto]] later said that the Nobel Prize is not just an award for a piece of work, but a recognition of a scientist's overall reputation and Hoyle's championing many disreputable and disproven ideas may have invalidated him.<ref name="GuardianObit"/><ref name="Nature obit">{{cite journal|last=Maddox |first=J.|title=Obituary: Fred Hoyle (1915–2001)|journal=Nature|volume=413|page=270|date=2001|issue=6853|doi=10.1038/35095162|bibcode = 2001Natur.413..270M|s2cid=5053798|doi-access=free}}</ref> In his obituary, ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' editor and fellow Briton [[John Maddox]] called it "shameful" that Fowler had been rewarded with a Nobel prize and Hoyle had not.<ref name="Nature obit"/>