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Hermann Bondi
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Austrian-British mathematician and cosmologist
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
via Wikipedia infobox
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
- Employer
- University of Cambridge
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- atheism
- Doctoral advisor
- Arthur Eddington
- Image
- Hermann Bondi, 1968, opening ESTEC.jpg
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- member of
- Royal Society
- date of birth
- 1919-11-01
- date of death
- 2005-09-10
- student
- Roger Penrose
- place of detention
- Isle of Man
- ethnic group
- Jewish people
- place of burial
- cremation
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
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".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hermann Bondi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.