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==Honours== [[File:Institute of Astronomy, statue of Sir Fred Hoyle - geograph.org.uk - 372582.jpg|thumb|A statue of Fred Hoyle at the [[Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge]]]] {{more citations needed|section|date=August 2017}} '''Awards''' * Elected a member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] (1964)<ref>{{cite web|title=Fred Hoyle|url=https://www.amacad.org/person/fred-hoyle|access-date=15 June 2022|website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences}}</ref> * Elected a [[List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1957|Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1957]]<ref name="frs"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www2.royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27hoyle%27%29|title=Library and Archive Catalogue|publisher=Royal Society|access-date=29 December 2010}}{{dead link|date=March 2018|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> * [[Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society]] (1968) * [[Bakerian Lecture]] (1968) * Elected member of the United States [[National Academy of Sciences]] (1969)<ref>{{cite web|title=Fred Hoyle|url=http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/46800.html|access-date=15 June 2022|website=www.nasonline.org}}</ref> * [[Bruce Medal]] (1970) * [[Henry Norris Russell Lectureship]] (1971) * [[National Radio Astronomy Observatory#Jansky Prize|Jansky Lectureship]] before the [[National Radio Astronomy Observatory]] * Knighthood (1972) * President of the [[Royal Astronomical Society]] (1971β1973) * Honorary Fellow of [[St John's College, Cambridge]] (1973β2001)<ref name="Fred Hoyle Project"/> * [[Royal Medal]] (1974) * [[Klumpke-Roberts Award]] of the [[Astronomical Society of the Pacific]] (1977) * Elected member of the [[American Philosophical Society]] (1980)<ref>{{cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Fred+Hoyle&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced|accessdate=15 June 2022|website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref> * [[Balzan Prize]] for Astrophysics: evolution of stars (1994, with [[Martin Schwarzschild]]) * [[Crafoord Prize]] from the [[Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences]], with [[Edwin Salpeter]] (1997) '''Named after him''' * Hoyle Building, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge * [[Asteroid]] 8077 Hoyle * ''Janibacter hoylei'', species of bacteria discovered by [[ISRO]] scientists<ref>[http://expressbuzz.com/Cities/Bangalore/indian-scientists-discover-three-new-species-of-bacteria/50294.html Indian scientists discover three new species of bacteria]{{dead link|date=January 2018|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}. 17 March 2009. [[The Indian Express]].</ref> * Sir Fred Hoyle Way, a stretch of the [[A650 road|A650]] dual carriageway in Bingley.<ref>{{cite news|last1=O'Rourke|first1=Tanya|title=Bingley bypass name is a star turn!|url=http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/local/district/district_bingley/district_bingley_bin/district_bingley_bin_cottingley/4862645.Bingley_bypass_name_is_a_star_turn_/|access-date=2 October 2017|work=Bradford Telegraph and Argus|date=20 January 2010}}</ref> * [[Institute of Physics]] [[Fred Hoyle Medal and Prize]] ===Memorabilia=== The Fred Hoyle Collection at [[St John's College, Cambridge#The College Library|St John's College Library]] contains "a pair of walking boots, five boxes of photographs, two ice axes, some dental X-rays, a telescope, ten large film reels and an unpublished opera" in addition to 150 document boxes of papers.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/cmt/?p=1331|title=Centre for Material Texts, Blog Archive, The Fred Hoyle Collection at St John's College Library|access-date=25 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160630130152/https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/cmt/?p=1331|archive-date=30 June 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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