Roger Tayler

For other people with the same name, see Roger Taylor.

Professor
Roger Tayler
OBE FRS
Personal details
Born
Roger John Tayler

25 October 1929
Died23 January 1997(1997-01-23) (aged 67)

Roger John Tayler (25 October 1929 – 23 January 1997) was a British astronomer. Tayler made important contributions to stellar structure and evolution, plasma stability, nucleogenesis and cosmology. He wrote a number of textbooks. He collaborated with Fred Hoyle and Stephen Hawking at the University of Cambridge on problems of helium production in cosmology.[1]

  1. ^ Gough, Douglas (September 1997). "Obituary: Roger John Tayler". Physics Today. 50 (9): 98–100. Bibcode:1997PhT....50i..98G. doi:10.1063/1.881896.