Thomas Gold Astronomer Specialty Astronomy, biophysics, geophysics, aerospace engineering Born May 22, 1920 Vienna, Austria Died June 22, 2004 (at age 84) Ithaca, New York Nationality Austrian British Thomas Gold was a cosmologist, an astrophysicist, and one of the three scientists who proposed the “steady state” theory of the universe. He also served as professor … Continue reading Thomas Gold