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Hermann Bondi

1919 - 2005

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Sir Hermann Bondi (1 November 1919 – 10 September 2005) was an Austrian-British mathematician and cosmologist. He is best known for developing the steady state model of the universe with Fred Hoyle and Thomas Gold as an alternative to the Big Bang theory. He contributed to the theory of general relativity, and was the first to analyze the inertial and gravitational interaction of negative mass and the first to explicate correctly the nature of gravitational waves. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hermann Bondi is the 448th most popular mathematician (up from 513th in 2019), the 555th most popular biography from Austria (up from 656th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Austrian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Hermann Bondi ranks 448 out of 1,004. Before him are Igor Ansoff, Frigyes Riesz, Pierre Alphonse Laurent, Johann II Bernoulli, Yang Hui, and Cato Maximilian Guldberg. After him are Goro Shimura, Yves Meyer, Gerd Faltings, Erhard Schmidt, Yutaka Taniyama, and Sam Loyd.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Hermann Bondi ranks 121. Before him are Teruo Nakamura, Gérard Oury, Hennes Weisweiler, Isaac Boleslavsky, Morteza Motahhari, and Joseph Serchuk. After him are Bernhard Wicki, Rubén González, Arthur Cronquist, José de Jesús Pimiento Rodríguez, Jean Lefebvre, and Ferruccio Valcareggi. Among people deceased in 2005, Hermann Bondi ranks 101. Before him are John DeLorean, Johnny Carson, Sangoulé Lamizana, István Nyers, Teresa Wright, and Eddie Albert. After him are Monica Zetterlund, Annette Stroyberg, Ferruccio Valcareggi, Aenne Burda, Svatopluk Pluskal, and George P. Cosmatos.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Hermann Bondi ranks 555 out of 1,424. Before him are Hilde Holger (1905), Wilhelm von Mirbach (1871), Joseph Hellmesberger Jr. (1855), Jörg Demus (1928), Egon Friedell (1878), and Franz Schalk (1863). After him are Bernhard Wicki (1919), Archduchess Isabella Clara of Austria (1629), Dezső Kosztolányi (1885), Karl Rappan (1905), Annemarie Moser-Pröll (1953), and Berta Karlik (1904).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Austria

Among mathematicians born in Austria, Hermann Bondi ranks 8. Before him are Paul Ehrenfest (1880), Georg von Peuerbach (1423), Hans Hahn (1879), Georg Alexander Pick (1859), Emil Artin (1898), and Karl Menger (1902). After him are Philipp Frank (1884), Simon von Stampfer (1790), Hilda Geiringer (1893), Otto E. Neugebauer (1899), Friedrich Waismann (1896), and Helena Rasiowa (1917).

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