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0n the lambda 2800 A interstellar extinction feature

scientific article published in January 1984

2.8-3.6 mu.m. of micro-organisms with varying H2O ice-content

scientific article published in January 1983

2.8-3.6 mu.m. of micro-organisms with varying H2O ice-content

scientific article

A cosmic virosphere

scientific article published on 03 October 2020

A diatom model of dust in the Trapezium nebula

scientific article published in January 1988

A diatom model of dust in the Trapezium nebula

A model for interstellar extinction

scientific article published in January 1999

A model for interstellar extinction

scholarly article

A unified model for the 3.28 mu emission and the lambda 2200A interstellar extinction feature

scientific article published in January 1999

A unified model for the 3.28 mu emission and the lambda 2200A interstellar extinction feature

scientific article published in January 1989

Alignment of Interstellar Grains by Cosmic Rays

scientific article published in Nature

An integrated 2.5-12.5 mu.m emission spectrum of naturally-occuring aromatic molecules

An integrated 2.5-12.5 mu.m emission spectrum of naturally-occuring aromatic molecules

scholarly article

An internet of microbes straddling the cosmos

scientific article published on 03 October 2020

Are these stratospheric nanoparticles bacteria?

scientific article published on 01 April 2004

Aromatic hydrocarbons in very small interstellar grains

scholarly article

Aromatic hydrocarbons in very small interstellar grains

scientific article published in January 1999

Bacterial life in space

scientific article published in Nature

Between the Stars

journal article; published in Nature on 1970-10-01

Biochemical chromophores and the interstellar extinction at ultraviolet wavelengths

Biofluorescence and the extended red emission in astrophysical sources

scientific article published in January 1996

Biofluorescence and the extended red emission in astrophysical sources

scientific article published in January 1999

Calculations of infrared fluxes from galactic sources for a polysaccharide grain model

scientific article published in January 1978

Calculations of infrared fluxes from galactic sources for a polysaccharide grain model

scientific article published in January 1999

Cause of Cambrian Explosion - Terrestrial or Cosmic?

scientific article published on 12 March 2018

Chemical Exchange Reactions and H2 Formation in Dark Interstellar Clouds

scientific article published in Nature

Colour Centres in Interstellar Grains

scientific article published in Nature

Cometary habitats for primitive life

scientific article published in January 1992

Cometary organics

scientific article published in Nature

Cometary organics

Cometary panspermia and origin of life?

scientific article published in 2020

Comets - A vehicle for panspermia

scientific article published in January 1999

Comets and the Origin of Life

article

Condensation of Dust in Galactic Explosions

scientific article published in Nature

Condensation of the Planets

scientific article published in Nature

Cosmic microwave background

scientific article published in Nature

Cosmochemistry and evolution

journal article; published in Nature, 1978-10

Cross-linked hetero aromatic polymers in interstellar dust

Detection of living cells in stratospheric samples

Diatoms on Earth, comets, Europa and in interstellar space

scientific article

Dust in Supernova Explosions

scientific article published in Nature

Dust in high-redshift objects

scientific article published in January 1995

Dusty Problems

scientific article published in Nature

Evidence for Lattice Bands in Interstellar Grains

scientific article published in Nature

Experiments to prove continuing microbial ingress from Space to Earth

scientific article published in 2020

Extinction Curves for Graphite Particles coated with Solid Hydrogen

scientific article published in Nature

Extinction of dinosaurs: a possible novel cause

scientific article published in March 1995

Extreme albedo comets and the impact hazard

scientific article published in January 2004

Formaldehyde polymers in interstellar space

scientific article published in Nature

Frictional and radiation heating of micron-sized meteoroids in the Earth's upper atmosphere

scientific article published in January 2003

Functions and possible provenance of primordial proteins

scientific article published in November 2004

Functions and possible provenance of primordial proteins--Part II: microorganism aggregation in clouds triggered by climate change

scientific article

Further work of Fred Hoyle

scientific article published on December 15, 2001

Galactic component of the diffuse X-ray background

scientific article published on 01 July 1970

Galactic soft X-rays and the alignment of interstellar grains

scientific article published on 01 November 1970

Giant comets, evolution and civilization

Graphite Particle Model for NML Cygnus

scientific article published in Nature

Greenhouse dust

scientific article published in Nature

Growth and replication of red rain cells at 121°C and their red fluorescence

scientific article published on 19 August 2010

How do microorganisms reach the stratosphere?

Ice particles and the greenhouse

scientific article published in Nature

Identification of interstellar polysaccharides and related hydrocarbons

scientific article published in Nature

Identification of the λ2, 200Å interstellar absorption feature

scientific article published in Nature

Impurities in Interstellar Grains

scientific article published in Nature

Influenza viruses and comets

scientific article published in Nature

Influenza – Evidence against Contagion: Discussion Paper

scientific article published in April 1990

Influenza--evidence against contagion: discussion paper

scientific article

Infrared Radiation from Dust in Seyfert Galaxies

scientific article published in Nature

Infrared evidence for panspermia: an update

Infrared evidence for panspermia: an update

scientific article

Infrared spectroscopy of micro-organisms near 3.4 mu.m. in relation to geology and astronomy

scholarly article by Hoyle F. et al published 1999 in Astrophysics and Space Science

Infrared spectroscopy of micro-organisms near 3.4 mu.m. in relation to geology and astronomy

scholarly article by Hoyle F. et al published 1982 in Astrophysics and Space Science

Infrared spectroscopy over the 2.9-3.9 mu.m. waveband in biochemistry and astronomy

scholarly article by Fred Hoyle et al published 1999 in Astrophysics and Space Science

Infrared spectroscopy over the 2.9-3.9 mu.m. waveband in biochemistry and astronomy

scholarly article by Hoyle F. et al published 1982 in Astrophysics and Space Science

Infrared spectrum of the galactic centre

scientific article published on 01 April 1970

Interpretation of Cosmic Microwave Background

scientific article published in Nature

Interstellar Extinction by Graphite Grains

scientific article published in Nature

Interstellar Extinction by Graphite, Iron and Silicate Grains

scientific article published in Nature

Interstellar Extinction by Quartz Grains

scientific article published in Nature

Interstellar Grains

scientific article published in Nature

Interstellar Polarization by Graphite–Silicate Grain Mixtures

scientific article published in Nature

Interstellar extinction by cometary organic grain clumps

Interstellar proteins and the discovery of a new absorption feature at lambda = 2800 A

scholarly article

Interstellar transfer of planetary microbiota

scholarly article

Iron at the Galactic Centre

scientific article published in Nature

Is the 2019 novel coronavirus related to a spike of cosmic rays?

scientific article published on 01 October 2020

Keeping nanobacterial infections at bay during space travel

scientific article published on December 2004

Lamarck and Panspermia - On the Efficient Spread of Living Systems Throughout the Cosmos

scientific article published on 22 August 2019

Legionnaires' disease: seeking a wider source

scientific article published on 01 May 1985

Life-bearing primordial planets in the solar vicinity

Liquid water and organics in Comets: implications for exobiology

Localized Interstellar Molecular Hydrogen

scientific article published in Nature

Metallic particles in astronomy

scientific article published in January 1988

Metallic particles in astronomy

scientific article published in January 1999

Microbial transfers from Venus to Earth

scientific article published on 06 October 2020

Microdiamonds and the 3.4 mu.m feature in protostellar sources

Microorganisms cultured from stratospheric air samples obtained at 41 km.

scientific article

Microwave Background in a Steady-state Universe

scientific article published in Nature

Miller-Urey synthesis in the nuclei of galaxies

Miller-Urey synthesis in the nuclei of galaxies

scientific article published in January 1999

Millimetre and submillimetre radiation from high-redshift objects

scientific article published in January 1995

Mineral and organic particles in astronomy

scientific article published in January 1989

Mineral grains and the 10 and 20 mu.m spectral features in the Trapezium nebula

scientific article published in January 1988

Non-terrestrial origin of life: a transformative research paradigm shift

scientific article published on 6 December 2012

On graphite particles as interstellar grains

scientific article published in January 1962

On the deficiency in the ultraviolet fluxes from early type stars

scientific article published in January 1963

On the dynamics of volatile meteorites

scientific article published in January 2014

On the nature of interstellar grains

On the possibility of microbiota transfer from Venus to Earth

Organic dust in comet Halley

scientific article published in Nature

Organic grains in Taurus interstellar clouds

scientific article published in Nature

Organic molecules in interstellar dust: a possible spectral signature at lambda2200Angstroms

scientific article published in January 1999

Organic molecules in interstellar dust: a possible spectral signature at lambda2200Angstroms

scholarly article

Organo-siliceous biomolecules and the infrared spectrum of the Trapezium nebula

Organo-siliceous biomolecules and the infrared spectrum of the Trapezium nebula

scientific article published in January 1999

Origin of new emergent Coronavirus and Candida fungal diseases—Terrestrial or cosmic?

scientific article published in 2020

Origin of the Diffuse Interstellar Bands

scientific article published in Nature

Polysaccharides and infrared spectra of galactic sources

scientific article published in Nature

Polysaccharides and the infrared spectrum of OH 26.5+0.6

scientific article

Possible interpretations of the magnitude-redshift relation for supernovae of type Ia

scholarly article

Prebiotic molecules and interstellar grain clumps

scientific article published on March 17, 1977

Prebiotic polymers and infrared spectra of galactic sources

scientific article published in Nature

Preface: The origin of life and astrobiology

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Primitive grain clumps and organic compounds in carbonaceous chondrites

scientific article published in Nature

Radio waves from grains in HII regions

scientific article published on 01 August 1970

Reply to commentary by R Duggleby (2019)

scientific article published on 09 November 2018

Reply to editorial and commentaries on Steele, Al-Mufti, Augustyn, Chandrajith, Coghlan, Coulson et al. (2018) "Cause of Cambrian explosion - Terrestrial or Cosmic?"

scientific article published on 13 March 2018

Rosetta Radio Science Investigations (RSI)

SARS--a clue to its origins?

scientific article published in May 2003

Small dust grains and the heating of HI clouds

scientific article published on 01 August 1970

Stimulation of Interstellar OH by Phonons

scientific article published in Nature

Sunspots and influenza

scientific article published in Nature

The case for life as a cosmic phenomenon

scientific article published in Nature

The efficient Lamarckian spread of life in the cosmos

scientific article published in 2020

The extinction of starlight revisited

scientific article published in January 1991

The extragalactic Universe: an alternative view

scientific article published in Nature

The infrared excess from the white dwarf star G 29-38: a brown dwarf of dust ?

scientific article published in January 1988

The origin of life in comets

article

The sociology of science and generality of the DNA/RNA/protein paradigm throughout the cosmos

scientific article published in 2020

The spectroscopic identification of interstellar grains

scientific article published in January 1999

The spectroscopic identification of interstellar grains

scientific article

The world should establish an early warning system for new viral infectious diseases by space-weather monitoring

scientific article published on 23 July 2020

Unified Model for Interstellar Extinction and Polarization

scientific article published in Nature

Very small dust particles (VSDP's) in comet C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake)

scientific article

Wavelength Dependence of the Position Angle of Interstellar Polarization

scientific article published in Nature