Dennis W. Sciama
British physicist (1926–1999)
Dennis William Siahou Sciama, FRS (/ʃiˈæmə/; 18 November 1926 – 18/19 December 1999)[6][7] was a British physicist. He was an important scientist for the development of British physics after the Second World War.[8][9]
Dennis Sciama | |
|---|---|
| Born | Dennis William Siahou Sciama 18 November 1926 Manchester, Lancashire, UK |
| Died | 18/19 December 1999 (aged 73) Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge[1] |
| Known for | Cosmology |
| Spouse(s) | Lidia Dina (1959–1999; his death; 2 children) |
| Awards | Faraday Medal (1991)[2] Guthrie Medal and Prize (1991) |
| 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 |
| Doctoral advisor | Paul Dirac[3] |
| Doctoral students | |
| Influenced | Roger Penrose |
He was the PhD supervisor to many famous cosmologists, including Stephen Hawking, Martin Rees and David Deutsch. He is seen as one of the fathers of modern cosmology.[10][11][12][13]
References
change- ↑ Oral Histories – American Institute of Physics
- ↑ "Institute of Physics awards". Iop.org. 21 February 2012. Retrieved 2012-02-28.
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 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 2018-06-13. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
- ↑ 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 2012-02-28.
- ↑ "PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY VOL. 145, NO. 3, SEPTEMBER 2001" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 February 2012. Retrieved 2012-02-28.
- ↑ 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
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