Sciama, D. W. (Dennis William), 1926-
Oral history interview with Dennis William Sciama, 1999 June 9.
In this interview, Dennis Sciama discusses his life and career. Topics discussed include: Cambridge University; Fred Hoyle; Hermann Bondi; Thomas Gold; Ray Lyttleton; military service during World War II; Douglas R. Hartree; Abdus Salam; Ernest Rutherford; Arthur Stanley Eddington; Sir Martin Ryle; steady state universe; Paul Dirac; George Batchelor; Aaron Klug; S. Chandrasekhar; Henry Norris Russell; International Centre for Theoretical Physics; Eugene Paul Wigner; Murray Gell-Mann; John Wheeler; Pat Blackett; Werner Heisenberg; Bartel Leendert van der Waerden; C. P. Snow; G. H. Hardy.
British physicist. Ph.D., Cambridge University. Professional experience includes: Cambridge University; University of Oxford; professor of astrophysics, International School of Advanced Studies; consultant, International Centre for Theoretical Physics.
Batchelor, G. K. (George Keith)
Blackett, P. M. S. (Patrick Maynard Stuart), Baron Blackett, 1897-1974
Bondi, Hermann
Chandrasekhar, S. (Subrahmanyan), 1910-1995
Dirac, P. A. M. (Paul Adrien Maurice), 1902-1984
Eddington, Arthur Stanley, Sir, 1882-1944
Gell-Mann, Murray
Gold, Thomas
Hartree, Douglas R. (Douglas Rayner), 1897-1958
Heisenberg, Werner, 1901-1976
Hoyle, Fred, 1915-2001
Klug, A. (Aaron), Sir, 1926-
Lyttleton, Raymond Arthur
Russell, Henry Norris, 1877-1957
Rutherford, Ernest, 1871-1937
Ryle, Martin, 1918-1984-
Salam, Abdus, 1926-1996-
Sciama, D. W. (Dennis William), 1926-
Snow, C. P. (Charles Percy), 1905-1980
Waerden, B. L. van der (Bartel Leendert), 1903-
Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008.
Wigner, Eugene Paul, 1902-1995
International Centre for Theoretical Physics
University of Cambridge
Steady state cosmology.
World War, 1939-1945.
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De Greiff, Alexis, interviewer.
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American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA