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 | Cosmology, black holes, Big Bang theory, darkmatter, gravitational waves, quasars. |
Spouse |
Lidia Dina (m. 1959) |
Children | 2 |
Awards |
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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]
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