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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Stephen Hawking (redirect from Stephen W. Hawking)
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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Sachs–Wolfe effect (redirect from Rees-Sciama Effect)
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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working under John Archibald Wheeler, Abraham Taub, Rainer K. Sachs, and Dennis W. Sciama. Tipler became an associate professor in mathematical physics in 1981...
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University physicist Dennis W. Sciama proposed the addition of an acceleration dependent term to the Newtonian gravitation equation. Sciama's acceleration dependent...
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of evidence for such civilisations is known as the Fermi paradox. Dennis W. Sciama claimed that life's existence in the universe depends on various fundamental...
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List of cosmologists (section W)
an expert on big bang theory and an early proponent of dark matter Dennis W. Sciama (1926–1999) studied many aspects of cosmology and supervised many other...
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engaged. Jerry Seinfeld – American comedian, his mother was from Aleppo Dennis W. Sciama – British physicist of Syrian descent who, through his own work and...
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Production since 14 June 2018 Khalil Eideh – Australian politician Dennis W. Sciama – English physician, considered one of the fathers of modern cosmology...
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List of atheists in science and technology (section W)
mathematician, awarded the Fields medal for his work on distributions. Dennis W. Sciama (1926–1999): British physicist who played a major role in developing...
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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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and ornithologist. Joe Higgs, 59, Jamaican reggae musician, cancer. Dennis W. Sciama, 73, British physicist. John Southgate, 73, British Anglican priest...
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communicator in astronomy and natural sciences, Cornell University Dennis W. Sciama (1926–1999) – British physicist who played a major role in developing...
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for and/or were appointed to office as community representatives. Dennis W. Sciama (1926–1999), British physicist of Syrian-descent who played a role...
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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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In terms of philosophy of science, Ellis is a Platonist. ——; Hawking, S.W. (1973). The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time. Cambridge: University Press...
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List of Old Malvernians (section W)
historian, author and journalist Guy Sanderson, Bishop of Plymouth Dennis W. Sciama, astrophysicist, PhD supervisor to cosmologists, including Stephen...
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Sven Berlin, painter, writer and sculptor (born 1911) 18 December Dennis W. Sciama, physicist (born 1926) Bertha Swirles, physicist (born 1903) 19 December...
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Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-11727-0. Retrieved 9 March 2016. Sciama, Dennis (17 February 1972). "Cutting the Galaxy's losses". New Scientist: 373...
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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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Einstein–Cartan theory (redirect from Einstein–Cartan–Sciama–Kibble theory)
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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Epidemiologist) Sir Christopher Llewellyn Smith (Emeritus Professor of Physics) Dennis W. Sciama (British Physicist) Ian Walmsley (Hooke Professor of Experimental Physics)...
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Scientific phenomena named after people (section W)
Rayleigh–Taylor instability – Lord Rayleigh and G. I. Taylor Rees–Sciama effect – Martin Rees and Dennis Sciama Reidemeister moves – Kurt Reidemeister Résal effect...
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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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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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principle) Dark matter Observable universe Epistemology Philosophical razor Dennis W. Sciama From ideal to real observational cosmology, thegravitygrinch.blogspot...
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authors list (link) Dennis W. Sciama, "The physical structure of general relativity". Rev. Mod. Phys. 36, 463-469 (1964). Tom W. B. Kibble, "Lorentz...
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Matzner. He continued on post-doctoral fellowships at Oxford under Dennis Sciama, Moscow State University under Yakov Zeldovich and the University of...
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1983. Ian Graham Gass William Wilton Douglas Charles David Marsden Dennis W. Sciama Ian Sneddon Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar Ted Paige Anthony Trafford...
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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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