Dennis William Sciama (November 18, 1926 - December 18, 1999) was a British physicist who played an important role in the Golden Age of general relativity. He also helped revitalize Einstein-Cartan gravity, a classical relativistic gravitation theory which is a popular alternative to general relativity. Two-dimensional visualization of space-time distortion. ...

Dennis William Sciama (1926-1999)

Sciama earned his Ph.D. in 1953 at Cambridge, where he wrote a dissertion on the origins of inertia under the direction of Paul Dirac. The city of Cambridge is an old English university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire. ... Inertia is the tendency of any state of affairs to persist in the absence of external influences. ... Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, (August 8, 1902 – October 20, 1984) was a British theoretical physicist and a founder of the field of quantum physics. ...

Sciama taught at Harvard, Cornell, King's College, London, and the University of Texas at Austin, but spent most of his career at Oxbridge. Several of Sciama's doctoral students have themselves made notable contributions to physics and astronomy: Harvard, see Harvard (disambiguation) Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ... For other uses of the name Cornell, see Cornell (disambiguation). ... Kings College London (often abbreviated to KCL) in London is one of the largest colleges in the federal University of London, with 19,500 registered students. ... The University of Texas System comprises fifteen educational institutions in Texas, of which nine are general academic universities, and six are health institutions. ... Austin refers to: An Anglicization of the name of Saint Augustine, noticeable in the English version Austin Friars to refer to the Augustinian Order. ... Oxbridge is a portmanteau name for the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the two oldest in the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world. ...

• George Ellis (1964)
• Stephen Hawking (1966)
• Brandon Carter (1967)
• Martin Rees (1967)
• Malcom MacCallum (1971)

Sciama also influenced Roger Penrose. George Ellis is the Distinguished Professor of Complex Systems at the University of Cape Town, in the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics. ... Hawking as himself on Star Trek TNG Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS (born January 8, 1942, in Oxford, England) is one of the worlds leading theoretical physicists. ... Brandon Carter is a theoretical physicist, most famous for his work on the properties of black holes and for introducing the anthropic principle. ... Sir Martin John Rees, FRS (born 23 June 1942) is a professor of astronomy. ... Sir Roger Penrose, is a member of the faculty of Oxford University Sir Roger Penrose OM, FRS (born August 8, 1931) is an English mathematical physicist and Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. ...

References

• "Dennis Sciama." Mathematics Geneology Project. American Mathematical Society. Accessed on August 15, 2005.

• Sciama, Dennis W. (1972). Modern Cosmology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-08069-X.