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Short (104 pages) and clearly written non-mathematical book on the physical and conceptual foundations of General Relativity. It can be read with profit by physics students before immersing themselves in more technical studies of General
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cosmology; he was perhaps the only prominent Steady-State supporter to switch sides (Hoyle continued to work on modifications of steady-state for the rest of his life, while Bondi and Gold moved away from cosmology during the 1960s).
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who, through his own work and that of his students, played a major role in developing British physics after the Second World War. He was the PhD supervisor to many famous physicists and astrophysicists, including
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Sciama was of Jewish-Syrian descent and an avowed atheist. In 1959, Sciama married Lidia Dina, a social anthropologist, who survived him, along with their two daughters.
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to Sciama's memory. The 1960s group he led in Cambridge (which included Ellis, Hawking, Rees, and Carter), has proved of lasting influence.
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Sciama has been portrayed in a number of biographical projects about his most famous student, Stephen Hawking. In the 2004 BBC TV movie
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and the Academia Lincei of Rome. He served as president of the International Society of General Relativity and Gravitation, 1980–84.
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His work at SISSA and the University of Oxford led to the creation of a lecture series in his honour, the
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Cosmology and Controversy: The Historical Development of Two Theories of the Universe H
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elected to name their new building, and their supercomputer in 2011, in his honour.
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of the modern era completed their doctorates under Sciama's supervision, notably:
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During the 1990s, he divided his time between Trieste (with a residence in nearby
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During his last years, Sciama became interested in the issue of dark matter in
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Sciama, Dennis (1969). "The Physical Foundations of General Relativity".
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Oral History interview transcript with Dennis W. Sciama 25 January 1989
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and his mother born in Egypt, but both traced their roots back to
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Celotti, A.; Miller, J. C.; Sciama, Dennis W. (29 October 1999).
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Physical Processes in Radio Sources and the Intergalactic Medium
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Donegall Lecturers of Mathematics at Trinity College Dublin
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strongly criticized the portrayal of Sciama in the film.
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Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
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Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
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The Renaissance of General Relativity and Cosmology
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Index

FRS

Manchester
Lancashire
Oxford
Trinity College, Cambridge
Rees–Sciama effect
Faraday Medal
Guthrie Medal and Prize
University of Oxford
University of Cambridge
Cornell University
Harvard University
King's College, London
University of Texas at Austin
Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
Scuola Normale Superiore
Thesis
On the origin of inertia
Doctoral advisor
Paul Dirac
John D. Barrow
James Binney
Philip Candelas
Brandon Carter
David Deutsch
George Ellis
Gary Gibbons
Stephen Hawking
Adrian Melott

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