• 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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