Victor Clube

Stace Victor Murray Clube (born 22 October 1934 in London) is an English astrophysicist.

He was educated at St. John's and Christ Church, Oxford. He played first-class cricket for Oxford University.^[1] He appeared seventeen times for the university between 1956 and 1959, but only won a Blue—the awarding of the Oxford "colours" to sportsmen—in his first year there, appearing in the 1956 University match against Cambridge. During that match, which finished as a draw, he took just one wicket with his off break bowling.^[2]

Clube obtained his doctorate in 1959 with a thesis titled Interferometry of the Solar Chemosphere and Photosphere^[3] and went on to become a professional astrophysicist and astronomer. He has been Dean of the Astrophysics Department of Oxford University,^[4] and has worked at the observatories of Edinburgh, Armagh and Cape Town.^[5] He is known primarily for his work in collaboration with Bill Napier and others on the theory of "coherent catastrophism"^[6][7]

The asteroid 6523 Clube is named after him.^[8]

Selected bibliography

• The Cosmic Serpent (1982), with Bill Napier
• The Cosmic Winter (1990), with Bill Napier
• The Origin of Comets (1990), with M. E. Bailey and Bill Napier
• Close encounters with a million comets (15 July 1982). New Scientist 95, (1314), 148-151, with Bill Napier
• The microstructure of terrestrial catastrophism (1984). Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc. 211, 953-968, with Bill Napier
• The dynamics of armageddon (1988). Speculations of Science and Technology 11 (4), 255-264; reprinted in Zysman, Milton and Clark Whelton (eds.) (1990). Catastrophism 2000: A Sourcebook for the Conference Reconsidering Velikovsky, Toronto, Canada, pp. 5–16.
• Giant Comets and Their Role in History, Chapter 14 in Singer, S. Fred (ed.) (1990). The Universe and Its Origin: From Ancient Myth to Present Reality and Fantasy, Paragon House, New York. ISBN 0-89226-049-1, pp. 145–161.
• The structure and evolution of the Taurid Complex (1991). Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc. 251, 632-648, with D. I. Steel and D. J. Asher.
• The Fundamental Role of Giant Comets in Earth History (1992). Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy 54, 179-193.
• Hazards from Space: Comets in History and Science (1994). Chapter 7 in Glen, William (ed.) (1994). The Mass-extinction Debates: How Science Works in a Crisis, Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-2285-4. pp. 152–169.
• Are Impacts Correlated in Time? (1994). In Gehrels, Tom (ed.) (1994). Hazards Due to Comets and Asteroids, University of Arizona Press. ISBN 0-8165-1505-0. pp. 463–478; with D.I. Steel, D.J. Asher and W.M. Napier.
• The Nature of Punctuational Crises and the Spenglerian Model of Civilization (1995). Vistas in Astronomy 39, 673-698.^[9]
• An Exceptional Cosmic Influence and its Bearing on the Evolution of Human Culture as Evident in the Apparent Early Development of Mathematics and Astronomy (2003). Astrophysics and Space Science 285, 521-532.

References

1. "Player profile: Stace Clube". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
2. Bolton, Geoffrey (1962). History of the O.U.C.C. (First ed.). Oxford: Holywell Press Ltd. pp. 339–340.
3. "Fisher Room: Thesis List". Department of Physics, University of Oxford. Retrieved 26 October 2014.
4. Heinberg, Richard (September–October 1996). "Crypto-History: The State of the Art - Part II: Developments from 1980 to the Present". New Dawn Magazine. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
5. ZoomInfo Web Profile: Victor Clube
6. Asher, D.J., S.V.M. Clube, W.N. Napier and D. I. Steel (1994). Coherent Catastrophism. Vistas in Astronomy, 38 (1), 1-27; Abstract at Harvard.edu; for a popular exposition of this theory, see Mike Davis, "Cosmic Dancers on History's Stage?" in Dead Cities: And Other Tales (2002), 307-59.
7. Connor, Steve (10 July 1994). "Saturday Night Live: A giant comet is on collision-course with the planet Jupiter. The crash, due next weekend, could be greater than anything previously witnessed by humans. Some say it portends disaster; at the very least, it's exploding some cosy illusions of 'cosmic safety'". Independent on Sunday.
8. Schmadel, Lutz D. (ed.). "(6523) Clube". Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Springer.
9. Sott.net

External links

• Greenbeltastro.org