Dennis William Siahou Sciama FRS (18 November 1926 – 18 December 1999) was a British physicist who, through his own work and that of his students, played a major role in developing British physics after the Second World War. He is considerd as one of the fathers of modern cosmology.
Sciama was born in Manchester, England. He was of Egyptian Jewish ancestry on his father side and of Egyptian Jewish and Syrian Jewish ancestries on his mother side. ...
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Dennis William Siahou Sciama FRS (18 November 1926 – 18 December 1999) was a British physicist who, through his own work and that of his students, played a major role in developing British physics after the Second World War. He is considerd as one of the fathers of modern cosmology.
Sciama was born in Manchester, England. He was of Egyptian Jewish ancestry on his father side and of Egyptian Jewish and Syrian Jewish ancestries on his mother side. The family name was originally "Shama."
Sciama earned his Ph.D. in 1953 at Cambridge University under the supervision of Paul Dirac, with a dissertation on Mach's principle and inertia. His work later influenced the formulation of scalar-tensor theories of gravity.
He taught at Cornell, King's College London, Harvard and the University of Texas at Austin, but spent most of his career at Cambridge (1950s and 60s) and the University of Oxford (1970s and early 80s). In 1983, he moved from Oxford to Trieste, becoming Professor of Astrophysics at...
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