1926 - 1999
Dennis William Siahou Sciama, (; 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. He was the PhD supervisor to many famous physicists and astrophysicists, including John D. Barrow, David Deutsch, George F. R. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dennis W. Sciama has received more than 391,603 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Dennis W. Sciama is the 488th most popular physicist (down from 407th in 2019), the 2,364th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,793rd in 2019) and the 58th most popular British Physicist.
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Among physicists, Dennis W. Sciama ranks 488 out of 717. Before her are Otto Lehmann, Ernest Marsden, Jayant Narlikar, Edoardo Amaldi, Boris Podolsky, and Richard C. Tolman. After her are Pierre Weiss, Arthur Jeffrey Dempster, Jakob II Bernoulli, Heinz von Foerster, Gunnar Nordström, and Vikram Sarabhai.
1855 - 1922
HPI: 51.27
Rank: 482
1889 - 1970
HPI: 51.27
Rank: 483
1938 - Present
HPI: 51.25
Rank: 484
1908 - 1989
HPI: 51.22
Rank: 485
1896 - 1966
HPI: 51.21
Rank: 486
1881 - 1948
HPI: 51.19
Rank: 487
1926 - 1999
HPI: 51.12
Rank: 488
1865 - 1940
HPI: 51.07
Rank: 489
1886 - 1950
HPI: 51.06
Rank: 490
1759 - 1789
HPI: 51.01
Rank: 491
1911 - 2002
HPI: 50.99
Rank: 492
1881 - 1923
HPI: 50.98
Rank: 493
1919 - 1971
HPI: 50.97
Rank: 494
Among people born in 1926, Dennis W. Sciama ranks 210. Before her are Robert Bly, Ray Brown, Georgi Lozanov, Frank Finlay, Arnošt Lustig, and Marian Jaworski. After her are Rudi Gutendorf, André Delvaux, Fernando J. Corbató, Johanna Quandt, Julie Adams, and Bal Thackeray. Among people deceased in 1999, Dennis W. Sciama ranks 117. Before her are Karekin I, Paul Sacher, Riccardo Cucciolla, Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Dennis Viollet, and Ian Bannen. After her are Igor M. Diakonoff, Milt Jackson, Carlos Hathcock, Jacques Lecoq, Primo Nebiolo, and Dmitry Likhachov.
1926 - 2021
HPI: 51.50
Rank: 204
1926 - 2002
HPI: 51.37
Rank: 205
1926 - 2012
HPI: 51.35
Rank: 206
1926 - 2016
HPI: 51.32
Rank: 207
1926 - 2011
HPI: 51.25
Rank: 208
1926 - 2020
HPI: 51.18
Rank: 209
1926 - 1999
HPI: 51.12
Rank: 210
1926 - 2019
HPI: 51.07
Rank: 211
1926 - 2002
HPI: 51.02
Rank: 212
1926 - 2019
HPI: 50.99
Rank: 213
1926 - 2015
HPI: 50.91
Rank: 214
1926 - 2019
HPI: 50.71
Rank: 215
1926 - 2012
HPI: 50.71
Rank: 216
1932 - 1999
HPI: 51.51
Rank: 111
1906 - 1999
HPI: 51.43
Rank: 112
1924 - 1999
HPI: 51.42
Rank: 113
1912 - 1999
HPI: 51.32
Rank: 114
1933 - 1999
HPI: 51.23
Rank: 115
1928 - 1999
HPI: 51.13
Rank: 116
1926 - 1999
HPI: 51.12
Rank: 117
1914 - 1999
HPI: 51.05
Rank: 118
1923 - 1999
HPI: 51.01
Rank: 119
1942 - 1999
HPI: 50.94
Rank: 120
1921 - 1999
HPI: 50.94
Rank: 121
1923 - 1999
HPI: 50.93
Rank: 122
1906 - 1999
HPI: 50.93
Rank: 123
Among people born in United Kingdom, Dennis W. Sciama ranks 2,364 out of 7,765. Before her are Stanley Myers (1930), Ian Bannen (1928), Gerry Ashmore (1936), Harold Jeffreys (1891), Bridget Riley (1931), and Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet (1772). After her are Dion Fortune (1890), Agnes Baden-Powell (1858), John Neville (1925), Patrick Gordon (1635), James Guillaume (1844), and Pauline Moran (1947).
1930 - 1993
HPI: 51.14
Rank: 2,358
1928 - 1999
HPI: 51.13
Rank: 2,359
1936 - 2021
HPI: 51.13
Rank: 2,360
1891 - 1989
HPI: 51.13
Rank: 2,361
1931 - Present
HPI: 51.13
Rank: 2,362
1772 - 1828
HPI: 51.12
Rank: 2,363
1926 - 1999
HPI: 51.12
Rank: 2,364
1890 - 1946
HPI: 51.11
Rank: 2,365
1858 - 1945
HPI: 51.11
Rank: 2,366
1925 - 2011
HPI: 51.11
Rank: 2,367
1635 - 1699
HPI: 51.11
Rank: 2,368
1844 - 1916
HPI: 51.11
Rank: 2,369
1947 - Present
HPI: 51.10
Rank: 2,370
Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Dennis W. Sciama ranks 58. Before her are William Robert Grove (1811), Charles Galton Darwin (1887), Joseph Larmor (1857), John Canton (1718), John Leslie (1766), and Ernest Marsden (1889). After her are Michael Green (1946), Michael Berry (1941), Paul Davies (1946), Sergey Kapitsa (1928), James David Forbes (1809), and William Edward Ayrton (1847).
1811 - 1896
HPI: 52.38
Rank: 52
1887 - 1962
HPI: 52.29
Rank: 53
1857 - 1942
HPI: 51.96
Rank: 54
1718 - 1772
HPI: 51.86
Rank: 55
1766 - 1832
HPI: 51.49
Rank: 56
1889 - 1970
HPI: 51.27
Rank: 57
1926 - 1999
HPI: 51.12
Rank: 58
1946 - Present
HPI: 50.97
Rank: 59
1941 - Present
HPI: 50.94
Rank: 60
1946 - Present
HPI: 50.74
Rank: 61
1928 - 2012
HPI: 49.99
Rank: 62
1809 - 1868
HPI: 49.74
Rank: 63
1847 - 1908
HPI: 49.37
Rank: 64