• Dennis William Siahou Sciama, FRS (/ʃiˈæmə/; 18 November 1926 – 18 December 1999) was an English physicist who, through his own work and that of his students...
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  • place at Columbia University being given by British cosmologist Dennis Sciama. And when Sciama paused for a moment in his speaking, Tryon suddenly said out...
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    his thesis on quantum field theory in curved space-time supervised by Dennis Sciama and Philip Candelas. His work on quantum algorithms began with a 1985...
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  • voids and clusters, is sometimes known as the Rees–Sciama effect, since Martin Rees and Dennis Sciama elucidated the following physical picture. Accelerated...
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  • concerned about his lack of a thesis topic. After he and his professor Dennis Sciama attend a lecture on black holes, Stephen speculates that black holes...
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    part of the CNRS. Carter studied at the University of Cambridge under Dennis Sciama. He found the exact solution of the geodesic equations for the Kerr/Newman...
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  • seems to have been put on hold. He rejects the help of his supervisor Dennis Sciama and sinks into a depression. It is only Stephen's occasional meetings...
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    post-graduate research at Cambridge and completed a PhD supervised by Dennis Sciama in 1967. Rees' post-graduate work in astrophysics in the mid-1960s coincided...
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  • physics, the Einstein–Cartan theory, also known as the Einstein–Cartan–Sciama–Kibble theory, is a classical theory of gravitation, one of several alternatives...
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    statistically significant and can no longer be ignored. Already in 1967, Dennis Sciama predicted that the CMB has a significant dipole anisotropy. In recent...
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    Shooting Martha. Orion. ISBN 9781474621564. Grobar, Matt (23 June 2022). "Dennis Quaid, Isabelle Fuhrman, David Thewlis, Josh Hutcherson & Kiera Allen To...
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  • Rosen, Léon Rosenfeld, Helmut Salecker, Alfred Schild, Ralph Schiller, Dennis Sciama, M. A. Tonnelat, Ryoyu Utiyama, Joseph Weber, J. A. Wheeler. ORAL HISTORIES:...
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    attention drawn from pure mathematics to astrophysics by the cosmologist Dennis Sciama, then at Cambridge) in the words of Kip Thorne of Caltech, "Roger Penrose...
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  • statistically significant and can no longer be ignored. Already in 1967, Dennis Sciama predicted that the cosmic microwave background has a significant dipole...
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    Director 2002 Gangs of New York Harry Watkins / Lincoln 2004 Hawking Dennis Sciama 2004 Stella Street: The Movie Mrs. Huggett / Keith Richards / Jeremy...
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    Park building University House Sports fields St Michael's building Dennis Sciama building Library Ravelin House On 7 June 2013, the University of Portsmouth...
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  • College, Cambridge and Wadham College, Oxford, where he was a student of Dennis Sciama, from 1972, receiving his bachelor's degree in 1973. From 1975 he was...
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    scattering surface (see Sachs–Wolfe effect). 1968 – Martin Rees and Dennis Sciama theoretically predict microwave background fluctuation amplitudes created...
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    Relativity and Cosmology: A Survey to Celebrate the 65th Birthday of Dennis Sciama. Cambridge University Press. pp. 26–27. ISBN 978-0-521-43377-8. Ashtekar...
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    in 1969 he became a research student under the supervision of Dennis Sciama. When Sciama moved to the University of Oxford, he became a student of Stephen...
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  • and supports the idea of an infinite universe. 1965 – Martin Rees and Dennis Sciama analyze quasar source count data and discover that the quasar density...
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  • was listed as coauthor in a revised edition of Born's Atomic Physics. Dennis Sciama, later cosmologist and FRS. At RRE he coauthored work on band structure...
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    Doctoral advisor Ralph Fowler Doctoral students Homi J. Bhabha Harish-Chandra Dennis Sciama Fred Hoyle Behram Kurşunoğlu John Polkinghorne C. J. Eliezer...
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  • physicist who worked with Hawking on Penrose-Hawking singularity theorems Dennis Sciama, cosmologist and PhD supervisor for Hawking John Wheeler, theoretical...
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    Martin Perl (Nobel Prize in Physics, 1995), Demetrios Christodoulou, Dennis Sciama, Gerard 't Hooft (Nobel Prize in Physics, 1999), Arthur E. Fischer,...
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    the University of Oxford, reading for a DPhil at Christ Church under Dennis Sciama, which he completed in 1975. After holding several post-doctoral positions...
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  • Abdus Salam (1926–1996) David Abramovich Kirzhnits [de] (1926–1998) Dennis Sciama (1926–1999) Rudolph Max Sternheimer (1926–2000) Aneesur Rahman (1927–1987)...
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  • Abu-Deeb (born 1942), Chair of Arabic at the University of London Dennis W. Sciama (1926–1999), British physicist of Syrian-descent who, through his own...
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  • degree from Cambridge University, then earned his Ph.D. in 1992 with Dennis Sciama at the International School for Advanced Studies (ISAS-SISSA) in Trieste...
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  • Austin where he met and quickly decided to work with noted cosmologist Dennis W. Sciama. He was among one of three groups who had initiated the numerical simulation...
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