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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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