Dennis Sciama | |
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| Born | Dennis William Siahou Sciama 18 November 1926 Manchester, Lancashire, England |
| Died | 18 December 1999 (aged 73) Oxford, England |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge[6] |
| Known for | Rees–Sciama effect |
| Spouse |
Lidia Dina (m. 1959) |
| Children | 2 |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Gravitation |
| Institutions | University of Oxford University of Cambridge Cornell University Harvard University King's College, London University of Texas at Austin Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati Scuola Normale Superiore |
| Thesis | On the origin of inertia (1952) |
| Doctoral advisor | Paul Dirac[2] |
| Doctoral students | |
Dennis William Siahou Sciama, FRS (/ʃiˈæmə/; 18 November 1926 – 18 December 1999)[7][8] was an English physicist who, through his own work and that of his students, played a major role in developing British physics after the Second World War.[9][10] He was the PhD supervisor to many famous physicists and astrophysicists, including John D. Barrow, David Deutsch, George F. R. Ellis, Stephen Hawking, Adrian Melott and Martin Rees, among others; he is considered one of the fathers of modern cosmology.[11][12][13][14]
- ^ "Institute of Physics awards". Iop.org. 21 February 2012. Retrieved 28 February 2012.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Dennis Sciama at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Hawking, Stephen William (1966). Properties of Expanding Universes. repository.cam.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. doi:10.17863/CAM.11283. OCLC 62793673. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.601153.
- ^ Rees, Martin (1967). Physical Processes in Radio Sources and the Intergalactic Medium (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. Archived from the original on 13 June 2018. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
- ^ "Professor Tim Palmer, CBE, FRS". Honorary Graduates 2016. University of Bristol. 21 July 2016. Retrieved 17 October 2016.
- ^ Oral Histories – American Institute of Physics
- ^ Ellis, George F. R.; Penrose, Roger (2010). "Dennis William Sciama. 18 November 1926 -- 19 December 1999". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 56: 401–422. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2009.0023. S2CID 73035217.
- ^ Ellis, George F. R. (2000). "Dennis Sciama (1926–99)". Nature. 403 (6771): 722. Bibcode:2000Natur.403..722E. doi:10.1038/35001716. PMID 10693790. S2CID 4340665.
- ^ "PhysicsWorld Archive » Volume 13 » Obituary: Dennis Sciama 1926–1999". Physicsworldarchive.iop.org. Retrieved 28 February 2012.
- ^ "PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY VOL. 145, NO. 3, SEPTEMBER 2001" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 February 2012. Retrieved 28 February 2012.
- ^ The Renaissance of General Relativity and Cosmology, eds. G. F. R. Ellis et al., Cambridge Univ. Press, 1993. (Contains a Sciama Festschrift with Sciama's complete scientific genealogy). [ISBN missing]
- ^ Short biography (source for much of this entry)
- ^ Oral History interview transcript with Dennis W. Sciama 25 January 1989, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives
- ^ Sciama, Dennis William (1926–1999), cosmologist. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/73574
