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Dennis William Siahou Sciama, FRS (/ ʃ i ˈ æ m ə /; 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.
Feb 17, 2000 · Dennis Sciama, who died on 18 December last year, was one of the far-sighted physicists involved in this transition. Sciama was a student of Paul Dirac, and like him became fascinated with...
- George F.R Ellis
- ellis@maths.uct.ac.za
- 2000
Cosmology, black holes, Big Bang theory, darkmatter, gravitational waves, quasars. Dennis William Siahou Sciama, 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.
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A transcript of an oral history interview with Dennis W. Sciama, a cosmologist and proponent of the steady-state theory, conducted in 1978 by Woodruff T. Sullivan III. The interview covers Sciama's background, his work on relativity and radio astronomy, and his views on the steady-state theory and its challenges.
In 1953, in order to express Mach's Principle in quantitative terms, the Cambridge University physicist Dennis W. Sciama proposed the addition of an acceleration dependent term to the Newtonian gravitation equation.
Weart: I'm interested in background things. I have here from WHO'S WHO that you were born in Manchester in 1926, but I don't know anything else about your family, Who were your parents, what did they do? Sciama: My father was a business man who was also born in Manchester, and his father was born in Manchester, and his father came from Aleppo in the Middle East, in Syria.
