Hermann Bondi

Person · Open Library

Born

1919

Works

65

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

IT

Active from

1961-03-15

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. van der Waals Volumes and Radii

   · 1964 · cited 18,037x

2. 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 15,947x

3. 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 10,992x

4. Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019

   · 2020 · cited 10,215x

5. Tricine-sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis for the separation of proteins in the range from 1 to 100 kDa

   · 1987 · cited 9,413x

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Quotes

• “On the most usual assumption, the universe is homogeneous on the large scale, i. e. down to regions containing each an appreciable number of nebulae. The homogeneity assumption may then be put in the form: An observer situated in a nebula and moving with the nebula will observe the same properties of the universe as any other similarly situated observer at any time.”
• “The kind of lecture which I have been so kindly invited to give, and which now appears in book form, gives one a rare opportunity to allow the bees in one's bonnet to buzz even more noisily than usual.”
• “All science is full of statements where you put the best face on your ignorance, where you say: true enough, we know awfully little about this, but more or less irrespective of the stuff we don't know about, we can make certain useful deductions.”
• “Time is that which is measured by a clock. This is a sound way of looking at things. A quantity like time, or any other physical measurement, does not exist in a completely abstract way. We find no sense in talking about something unless we specify how we measure it. It is the definition by the method of measuring a quantity that is the one sure way of avoiding talking nonsense about this kind of thing.”
• “The landscape has been so totally changed, the ways of thinking have been so deeply affected, that it is very hard to get hold of what it was like before... It is very hard to realize how total a change in outlook Isaac Newton has produced.”

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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

Sir William Hawthorne

Succeeded by

Lord Broers

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