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Dennis William Sciama

Dennis William Siahou Sciama (November 18 1926 - December 18 1999), the 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

person, academic, scientist, physicist, Jewish person, Scorpio person

Legal name, Full name: "Dennis William Siahou Sciama"
Born: ▶
1926, November 1926, November 18th 1926, the United Kingdom, Egypt, …
Africa, Manchester, the Middle East, Cairo, the world, North Africa, the Northern Hemisphere, Western Asia, Al Qāhirah, the UK 'rest of the world' postal zone, US postal Group 8, Africa-Eurasia
Died: ▶
1999, December 1999, December 18th 1999, the United Kingdom, England, …
Europe, the EU, Great Britain, the world, Oxford district, Oxford, Western Europe, the British Isles, the Northern Hemisphere, Northern Europe, Oxfordshire, England and Wales, the South-East of England, the South-West of England, UK postcode area OX, the true knowledge good local retailer coverage area, US postal Group 5, the United Kingdom and the Channel Islands, the British time region, Africa-Eurasia, Eurasia, the Oxford telephone code area, Thames Valley, Oxfordshire
Occupation: physicist
Wikipedia Page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_William_Sciama
Gender: male
Nationality: british
Residence: the United Kingdom, Italy
Educated: Cambridge University
Expert of: astrophysics, Cosmologist
Last Name: "Sciama"
First Name: "Dennis"
Employer: Harvard, Cambridge University, Cornell University, University of Texas at Austin, King's College London
Main Occupation: scientist
Doctoral Students: ▶
Stephen Hawking, David Deutsch, Martin Rees, John D. Barrow, George Ellis, …
Brandon Carter, Adrian Melott
Doctoral Advisor: Paul Dirac
Age at Death: 73 years, 1 month and 0 days old
Class: ▶
person, Jewish person, scientist, physicist, Scorpio person, …
academic
Did: die (1999)
Influence of, Influenced: Roger Penrose
Born During: 1920s
Died During: the 1990s
Attributes: Jewish, male
Freebase ID: "/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000076ef79"
Related Websites: http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/4871.html, http://www.sissa.it/ap/sciama/memorial_sciama_biography.html
DBPedia URI: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Dennis_William_Sciama
Middle-name: "Siahou", "William"
Birthday: the 18th of November
Freebase Primary MID: "/m/07fwwt"

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