Hermann Bondi
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- Born
- 1919
- Died
- 2005-09-10
- Works
- 65
Top works
- Evolution and change
- How man lives
- Treasures of the earth
- The birth of America
- How the world is farmed
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- van der Waals Volumes and Radii
· 1964 · cited 17,910x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,355x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,795x
- Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 9,734x
- Tricine-sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis for the separation of proteins in the range from 1 to 100 kDa
· 1987 · cited 9,400x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1919-11-01 ) 1 November 1919, Vienna , Austria
- Died
- 10 September 2005 (2005-09-10) (aged 85), Cambridge , England, UK
- Citizenship
- British
- Education
- Trinity College, Cambridge (M.A., 1940)
- Known for
- Steady State theory , Sticky bead argument , Bondi accretion , Bondi–Hoyle–Lyttleton accretion , Bondi k-calculus , Bondi mass , Bondi–Metzner–Sachs group , Lemaître–Tolman–Bondi metric , Atheism
- Awards
- Gold Medal of the RAS (2001) , Gold Medal of the IMA (1988) , Albert Einstein Medal (1983) , Guthrie Medal (1973) , James Scott Prize Lectureship (1960–1963) , Order of the Bath (1973) , Fellow of the Royal Society (1959)
- Fields
- Mathematics , Physical cosmology
- Institutions
- King's College London , University of Cambridge
- Academic advisors
- Harold Jeffreys , Arthur Eddington
- Doctoral students
- Felix Pirani , Roger Tayler
- Preceded by
Key dates
- Born
- 1 November 1919
- Died
- 10 September 2005
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Hermann
- Family name
- Bondi
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Vienna
- Place of death
- Cambridge
- Occupation
- physicist
- Position held
- director general
- Educated at
- University of Cambridge
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Sir Hermann Bondi KCB FRS (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. He contributed to the theory of general relativity, and was the first to analyze the inertial and gravitational interaction of negative mass and the first to explicate correctly the nature of gravitational waves. In his 1990 autobiography, Bondi regarded the 1962 work on gravitational waves as his "best scientific work".
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1919 births2005 deaths20th-century British astronomers20th-century British mathematiciansAcademics of King's College LondonAlbert Einstein Medal recipientsAlumni of Trinity College, CambridgeAustrian atheistsAustrian emigrants to the United KingdomAustrian people of Jewish descentBritish atheistsBritish cosmologists