Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Victor Clube
A somewhat heterodox astrophysicist, but, I think, a notable enough one to meet  and . http://www.worldcat.org/wcidentities/lccn-n81136411 According to WorldCat, ''The cosmic serpent : a catastrophist view of earth history'' is held by 540 libraries worldwide, and ''The cosmic winter'' by 316. http://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?q=author%3A%22v+clube%22+OR+author%3A%22svm+clube%22 According to Google Scholar he has 5 publications with over 100 citations, all as first or second author out of two or three authors (so without the hugely multiple authorship common in e.g. particle physics). His research and theories have been the subject of |significant coverage with multiple quotes from him in the ''Independent on Sunday'' (http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/saturday-night-live-a-giant-comet-is-on-collisioncourse-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-its-exploding-some-cosy-illusions-of-cosmic-safety-1412807.html 1994 open access), ''The Times'' (http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:UKNB:LTIB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=0EB4F0D3B279B2E2&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=0FE8B94B8C8CAAB1 1990 NewsBank subscription or UK library card required), and  ''The Sunday Times'' (http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:UKNB:LSTB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=0F91F598AEF7EEFB&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=0FE8B94B8C8CAAB1 1994 NewsBank subscription or UK library card required). There's also http://www.springerreference.com/docs/html/chapterdbid/130848.html a short biography of him in the ''Dictionary of Minor Planet Names''; I can only access the first couple of sentences, but they at least  his year of birth and that the cricketer and astrophysicist are the same person
— User:Qwfp, 11:34, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
Stance: keep
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