In the 1970s, Thomas Gold proposed the theory that life first developed not on the surface of the Earth, but several kilometers below the surface.

In 1959, the term magnetosphere was proposed by Thomas Gold.

But in terms of fundamental understanding, a key paper remains that of Thomas Gold more than half a century ago (Gold 1948).

Thomas Gold was born in Vienna on May 22, 1920.

Tucked into a close orbit just above those multihued clouds, Urbain knew, was the research station Thomas Gold.

Thomas Gold explains the recently discovered radio pulsars as rapidly rotating neutron stars; subsequent observations confirm the suggestion.

The hypothesis was re-defined and made popular in the West by Thomas Gold who published all his research in English.

Thomas Gold used the term the deep hot biosphere to describe the microbes which live underground.

The station is named after Thomas Gold; he was a twentieth-century astronomer.

Thomas Gold has posited that many Solar System bodies could potentially hold groundwater farther down.