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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 418,073 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Dennis W. Sciama is the 469th most popular physicist (up from 488th in 2019), the 1,993rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,358th in 2019) and the 50th most popular British Physicist.

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  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Dennis W. Sciama ranks 469 out of 851. Before her are Vikram Sarabhai, Pierre Victor Auger, Gaspard de Prony, Evgeny Lifshitz, Yuval Ne'eman, and Marie Alfred Cornu. After her are John Kerr, Jacques Babinet, Pyotr Lebedev, Clarence Zener, Johann Christian Poggendorff, and Anatole Abragam.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Dennis W. Sciama ranks 175. Before her are Karel Kosík, Mieczysław Rakowski, Jeffrey Hunter, Sonja Ziemann, Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Castro, and Lou Ottens. After her are Mark Taimanov, Big Mama Thornton, James Samuel Coleman, Shigeru Kayano, Alfred Pfaff, and Mickey Hargitay. Among people deceased in 1999, Dennis W. Sciama ranks 101. Before her are Kisshomaru Ueshiba, Aleksandr Demyanenko, Heinz G. Konsalik, George Mosse, Saul Steinberg, and Moondog. After her are Oscar Cullmann, Jean Guitton, Petr Shelokhonov, Hendrick Chin A Sen, Dmitry Likhachov, and Dennis Viollet.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Dennis W. Sciama ranks 1,993 out of 8,785. Before her are Randolph Churchill (1911), Hugh Hudson (1936), Daisy, Princess of Pless (1873), Richard Parkes Bonington (1801), Robert Morley (1908), and Colin Renfrew (1937). After her are Tom Hiddleston (1981), George Mary Searle (1839), John Kerr (1824), William Smith (1813), Eric Woolfson (1945), and John Butler Yeats (1839).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Dennis W. Sciama ranks 50. Before her are Duncan Haldane (1951), John Henry Poynting (1852), John Canton (1718), John Dollond (1706), Louis Harold Gray (1905), and William Watson (1715). After her are John Kerr (1824), G. M. B. Dobson (1889), John Leslie (1766), William Robert Grove (1811), William Edward Ayrton (1847), and Ernest Marsden (1889).

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