Abstract
I present a review on the paper by A. Poveda, 1965, BOTT, 4, 26, 15, where he discusses from a theoretical point of view the expected characteristics of a forming star. Originally motivated to explain two apparent puzzles of star formation, the existence of young stars below the main sequence and the Faulkner-Griffiths-Hoyle paradox, the paper went on to predict phenomena that were later confirmed observationally and that constitute important part of our present knowledge of stellar and planetary formation.
