Gamow was shown a copy: Gamow’s involvement and his coding schemes are described in detail, eg, in Judson 1996. Gamow also founded the RNA Tie Club, an organization that aspired, according to Gamow, “to solve the riddle of RNA structure, and to understand the way it builds proteins.”

Chapter 8: B for Big Bang

“We now come to the question”: The entire event is described in detail in Mitton 2005, pp. 127–29. The program was announced in Britain’s Radio Times magazine, March 28, 1949.

The name has even survived: Ferris 1993.

Fred Hoyle was born: Two excellent biographies of Hoyle are Mitton 2005 and Gregory 2005. Hoyle 1994 is a fascinating autobiography, as is the earlier and shorter Hoyle 1986a. Information can be found also through the Sir Fred Hoyle Project of St. John’s College at the University of Cambridge. Online at www.joh.cam.ac.uk/library/special_collections/hoyle/project/#collection.