The professor and his late colleague Sir Fred Hoyle championed the so-calledd " panspermia" theory from the 1960s.

自从上世纪60年代起，维克拉马辛教授和他的已故同事霍伊尔便倡导“有生源说（或称：胚种论）”的理论。

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The great British astronomer Fred Hoyle suggested that the laws of physics were so uniquely conducive to human existence that the universe must be "a put-up job".

英国天文学家弗雷德·霍伊尔（Fred Hoyle）表示，物理定律对人类存在的帮助是如此独特，所以宇宙必须是“一个被设计好的东西”。

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That was widely regarded as unfair, for many of the key insights were Fred Hoyle's.

ECONOMIST: Sir Fred Hoyle

Fred Hoyle showed how the rest of the periodic table could be built up.

ECONOMIST: Sir Fred Hoyle

However, until Fred Hoyle applied his mind to the question it looked as though many of the intermediate steps might be too unstable to account for the quantities of those elements that are observed.

ECONOMIST: Sir Fred Hoyle