Thomas Gold
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Gold
a friend of Freeman Dyson
http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/dyson-freeman.pdf
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/12/the-danger-of-cosmic-genius/308306/
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2020/03/freeman-dyson-the-last-great-contrarian.html