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George F. R. Ellis

1939 - Today

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George Francis Rayner Ellis, FRS, Hon. FRSSAf (born 11 August 1939), is the emeritus distinguished professor of complex systems in the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. He co-authored The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time with University of Cambridge physicist Stephen Hawking, published in 1973, and is considered one of the world's leading theorists in cosmology. From 1989 to 1992 he served as president of the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. George F. R. Ellis is the 368th most popular physicist (up from 743rd in 2019), the 43rd most popular biography from South Africa (up from 144th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular South African Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, George F. R. Ellis ranks 368 out of 851. Before him are Henri Pitot, Duncan Haldane, Gaston Planté, Théophile de Donder, Louis Slotin, and William Sturgeon. After him are Wolfgang Ketterle, Karl Guthe Jansky, Jurij Vega, Vladimir Shukhov, Franz Ernst Neumann, and Galileo Ferraris.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, George F. R. Ellis ranks 112. Before him are John O'Keefe, Marco Bellocchio, Dusty Springfield, Warda Al-Jazairia, Feroz Khan, and Kathryn Joosten. After him are Michael Moorcock, Velibor Vasović, Krzysztof Zanussi, Ryozo Suzuki, Tarcisio Burgnich, and Bernard Kouchner.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, George F. R. Ellis ranks 43 out of 454. Before him are Seymour Papert (1928), Jim Fouché (1898), Jan Smuts (1870), Kgalema Motlanthe (1949), Glynis Johns (1923), and Abba Eban (1915). After him are Reggie Walker (1889), André Brink (1935), Nico Diederichs (1903), Eben Dönges (1898), Basil Rathbone (1892), and Tom Naudé (1889).

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Among PHYSICISTS In South Africa

Among physicists born in South Africa, George F. R. Ellis ranks 2. Before him are Allan MacLeod Cormack (1924). After him are Stanley Mandelstam (1928), and Neil Turok (1958).

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