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Dennis W. Sciama

1926 - 1999

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Dennis William Siahou Sciama, (; 18 November 1926 – 18 December 1999) was an English 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 was the PhD supervisor to many famous physicists and astrophysicists, including John D. Barrow, David Deutsch, George F. R. Ellis, Stephen Hawking, Adrian Melott and Martin Rees, among others; he is considered one of the fathers of modern cosmology. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Dennis W. Sciama is the 311th most popular physicist (up from 470th in 2019), the 1,046th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,994th in 2019) and the 40th most popular British Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Dennis W. Sciama ranks 311 out of 851Before her are Anna Mani, Freeman Dyson, Alain Aspect, Rainer Weiss, Andre Geim, and Otto Robert Frisch. After her are Christoph Scheiner, Daniel C. Tsui, John Vincent Atanasoff, Steven Chu, Hagen Kleinert, and Pierre Louis Dulong.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Dennis W. Sciama ranks 82Before her are György Kurtág, Andrew Schally, Henry Way Kendall, Gyula Grosics, Steve Reeves, and Konstantinos Stephanopoulos. After her are Robert Fogel, Michel Butor, David H. Hubel, Ta Mok, Richard Matheson, and Noah Gordon. Among people deceased in 1999, Dennis W. Sciama ranks 40Before her are George C. Scott, Sarah Knauss, Henry Way Kendall, João Figueiredo, Hélder Câmara, and Desmond Llewelyn. After her are Amintore Fanfani, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani, Elliot Richardson, Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz, and Nathalie Sarraute.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Dennis W. Sciama ranks 1,046 out of 8,785Before her are Charlotte Cooper (1870), William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong (1810), Keith O'Brien (1938), N. R. Pogson (1829), Duncan I of Scotland (1001), and John Cale (1942). After her are William Webb Ellis (1806), Ninian (360), Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood (1864), Robert Knox (1791), Katherine Woodville, Duchess of Buckingham (1458), and Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers (1878).

Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Dennis W. Sciama ranks 40Before her are Osborne Reynolds (1842), Anthony James Leggett (1938), Daniel Rutherford (1749), Peter Mansfield (1933), Charles Wheatstone (1802), and Freeman Dyson (1923). After her are John Stewart Bell (1928), Stephen Hales (1677), Joseph Swan (1828), William Whewell (1794), Duncan Haldane (1951), and William Sturgeon (1783).