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Dennis W. Sciama

1926 - 1999

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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

Among physicists, Dennis W. Sciama ranks 488 out of 717Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Dennis W. Sciama ranks 210Before 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 117Before 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.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Dennis W. Sciama ranks 2,364 out of 7,765Before 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).

Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Dennis W. Sciama ranks 58Before 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).