Description | Contains guest lists, a press release about the symposium and a letter from Thomas Gold thanking people for their efforts in arranging the symposium. Also contains a letter from Yervant Terzian, Chairman, Department of Astronomy, to Thomas Gold inviting him and his family to the symposium, posters advertising the event and letters and telexes congratulating Gold on his 60th birthday including one from Fred Hoyle. Some of the letters and telexes come from those who could not attend the symposium. Also includes poems celebrating Gold's 60th birthday, the after-dinner speech delivered by Raymond A Lyttleton at the banquet and reviews of Yervant Terzian and Elizabeth B Bilson, 'Cosmology and Astrophysics - Essays in Honor of Thomas Gold' (New York, Cornell University, 1982). The book contains some of the papers presented at the symposium. There are also some newscuttings about the symposium . All of these letters and papers date from 1980 apart from the reviews of Yervant Terzian and Elizabeth B Bilson, 'Cosmology and Astrophysics - Essays in Honor of Thomas Gold', which date from 1983. |