Arthur Robert Hoyle (1922 - ) is an Australian historian and biographer. Born in Sydney, Australia in 1922 to Arthur Hoyle (1896-1971) and Gertrude Underwood (1895-1972), he served in the Royal Air Force as a Navigator during World War II where he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. He returned to Australia and married Moira Peisley (1924-1998). Sydney Harbour looking south from the vicinity of the Sydney Harbour Bridge towards the CBD skyline; the Opera House is visible in the background on the left. ... The Royal Air Force (often abbreviated to RAF) is the air force branch of the UK Armed Forces. ... For the WWW browsers of the same name, see Netscape Navigator and Mozilla. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... The Distinguished Flying Cross (D.F.C.) is a decoration for courage shown in air combat. ...
He served in the Australian Public Service and later taught Administration at the University of Canberra. He holds the degrees of BA (Hons) and Dip Ed (University of Sydney) and M.SocSci (University of Birmingham). Wiktionary has a definition of: Administration Organisational use In some organisational analyses, administration can refer to the bureaucratic or operational performance of mundane office tasks, usually internally oriented. ... The University of Canberra, or UC, is primarily located in the suburb of Bruce in Canberra, the capital of Australia, near the Belconnen Town Centre. ...
He is best known for his biographies.
Biographies
King O'Malley - The American Bounder, A.R. Hoyle, Macmillan, Melbourne, 1981
Roderick Flanagan - A bright flame too soon extinguished, A.R. Hoyle, SP, Canberra, 1988
Into the Darkness - A personal memoir (Autobiography), A.R. Hoyle, SP, Canberra, 1989
Eddie Ward - The Truest Labor Man, A.R. Hoyle, SP, Canberra, 1994
The Life of John Hunter, Navigator, Governor, Admiral, A.R. Hoyle, Mulini Press, Canberra, 2001
Hoyle believed that, as a general rule, solutions to major unsolved problems had to be sought by exploring radical hypotheses, whilst at the same time not deviating from well-attested scientific tools and methods.
Hoyle had no respect for the boundaries between scientific disciplines, which were artificial social constructs that often stood in the way of a proper comprehension of the cosmos.
It was Hoyle's original prediction of the presence of an excited state of the nucleus of the atom Carbon via his studies of the structure and evolution of stars that heralded a long and profitable collaboration with the Caltech nuclear physicist Willy Fowler.
In 1945 Hoyle became a junior lecturer in mathematics at the university of Cambridge.
Hoyle also was vice president of the council of the Royal Society, president of the Royal Astronomical Society, member of the Science Research Council from 1967 to 1972, and a foreign member of the American Philosophical Society and of the National Academy of Sciences.
Hoyle was knighted in 1972, at the age of 57, but at that time he felt he had had enough of the Cambridge system and resigned from his formal appointments in the UK.
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