MATHEMATICIAN

Hermann Bondi

1919 - 2005

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Sir Hermann Bondi (1 November 1919 – 10 September 2005) was an Austrian-British mathematician and cosmologist. He is best known for developing the steady state model of the universe with Fred Hoyle and Thomas Gold as an alternative to the Big Bang theory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hermann Bondi has received more than 165,763 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Hermann Bondi is the 513th most popular mathematician (down from 427th in 2019), the 656th most popular biography from Austria (down from 574th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Austrian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Hermann Bondi ranks 513 out of 1,004Before him are Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier, Hillel Furstenberg, Johann Baptist Cysat, Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov, Otto Hölder, and Kushyar Gilani. After him are Peter Lax, 'Abd al-Hamīd ibn Turk, Solomon Lefschetz, William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker, Polyaenus of Lampsacus, and Jai Singh II.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Hermann Bondi ranks 157Before him are Joan Brossa, Maurice Hilleman, Dan O'Herlihy, Mariano Martín, Merce Cunningham, and Tamara Toumanova. After him are Jüri Järvet, Igor Gouzenko, Oswaldo Guayasamín, Hans Hermann Groër, Galina Ustvolskaya, and Julia Robinson. Among people deceased in 2005, Hermann Bondi ranks 146Before him are Fabrizio Meoni, Piero Cappuccilli, Dan O'Herlihy, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Lajos Baróti, and Sunil Dutt. After him are Don Adams, Marga López, Corrado Bafile, Virginia Mayo, Martin Lings, and Zurab Zhvania.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Hermann Bondi ranks 656 out of 1,424Before him are Adi Hütter (1970), Magda Frank (1914), Hilde Holger (1905), Marko Arnautović (1989), László Almásy (1895), and Victor Papanek (1923). After him are Béla Barényi (1907), Emil von Reznicek (1860), Fritz Machlup (1902), Hans Hermann Groër (1919), Saint Sturm (704), and Friedrich Cerha (1926).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Austria

Among mathematicians born in Austria, Hermann Bondi ranks 9Before him are Georg von Peuerbach (1423), Hans Hahn (1879), Emil Artin (1898), Georg Alexander Pick (1859), Karl Menger (1902), and Philipp Frank (1884). After him are Simon von Stampfer (1790), Friedrich Waismann (1896), Hilda Geiringer (1893), Helena Rasiowa (1917), Otto E. Neugebauer (1899), and Leopold Vietoris (1891).