• 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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    He was initially disappointed to find that he had been assigned Dennis William Sciama, one of the founders of modern cosmology, as a supervisor rather...
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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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    2020. Ellis, George F. R.; Penrose, Sir Roger (1 January 2010). "Dennis William Sciama. 18 November 1926 – 19 December 1999". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows...
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    doctorate in astrophysics at Magdalen College, Oxford, supervised by Dennis William Sciama. Barrow was a Junior Research Lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford...
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  • (1918–1994) Nobel laureate Marlan Scully – United States (born 1939) Dennis William Sciama – U.K. (1926–1999) Bice Sechi-Zorn – Italy, United States (1928–1984)...
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  • Ryle (1918–1984), radio astronomer; invented aperture synthesis Dennis William Sciama (1926–1999), physicist; played a major role in developing British...
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  • R. Ellis; Roger Penrose (May 26, 2010). "Biographical Memoirs – Dennis William Sciama" (PDF). Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 56...
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    key figure in its revival, leading the school at Princeton, while Dennis William Sciama and Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich developed the subject at Cambridge...
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    University Press, 2007) Francis Routh autobiography Obituary of Dennis William Sciama. Martin Rees. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society...
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  • radius, Event horizon, Schwarzschild vacuum, Schwarzschild fluid), Dennis William Sciama (Einstein–Cartan theory, role in legitimizing black hole concept)...
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    Saunderson (Christ's) Richard R. Schrock (unknown), Nobel Prize winner Dennis William Sciama (Trinity), physicist Sir Nicholas Shackleton (Clare) Rupert Sheldrake...
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  • National Medal of Science (1983), Wolf Prize in Physics (1987) Dennis William Sciama (Professor) — physicist Harold Scheraga (Faculty 1947-1992) — member...
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    the energy- momentum concept in general relativity (1977) Doctoral advisor Dennis William Sciama Website www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/contacts/people/palmer...
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  • Jewish. George F. R. Ellis and Sir Roger Penrose (May 26, 2010). "Dennis William Sciama" (PDF). Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 56...
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  • Denis Evans Denis Papin Denis Rousseau Denis Weaire Dennis Dieks Dennis Gabor Dennis William Sciama Dense plasma focus Densitometry Density Density functional...
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    1994 Philip George Burke 1993 Tom Kibble 1992 Archibald Howie 1991 Dennis William Sciama 1990 Roger James Elliott 1989 Martin J. Rees 1988 Alan Lidiard 1987...
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  • Wolfe, A. M.; Barrow, John David; Peebles, Phillip James Edwin; Sciama, Dennis William (1986-12-17). "New evidence from the Lyman-alpha forest concerning...
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  • Royal Society elected in 1983. Ian Graham Gass William Wilton Douglas Charles David Marsden Dennis W. Sciama Ian Sneddon Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar Ted...
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    David Deutsch (category People educated at William Ellis School)
    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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    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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    Academy of Sciences, India and the Maharashtra Academy of Sciences. Dennis William Sciama; V. K. Kapahi; S. Ramadurai (1967). Lectures on Observational Cosmology...
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  • gravity theory on particle physics". In Isham, C. J.; Penrose, Roger; Sciama, Dennis William (eds.). Quantum Gravity: an Oxford Symposium. Oxford University...
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  • Arthur Schuster 1879-06-12 12 September 1851 – 14 October 1934 Dennis William Sciama 1983-03-17 18 November 1926 – 18 December 1999 cosmologist George...
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    original on 5 May 2019. Retrieved 19 March 2018. Celotti, A.; Miller, J. C.; Sciama, D. W. (1999). "Astrophysical evidence for the existence of black holes"...
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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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  • 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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    Prize 2004 Prix Georges Lemaître 2019 Scientific career Fields Cosmology Institutions University of Cambridge SISSA Doctoral advisor Dennis W. Sciama...
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  • California Institute of Technology. Former Center Director of NASA. Dennis W. Sciama, British physicist of Syrian descent. One of the fathers of modern...
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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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