Dennis William Siahou Sciama

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:person
gptkb:physicist
gptkbp:almaMater gptkb:Trinity_College,_Cambridge
gptkbp:birthDate 1926-11-18
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Manchester,_England
gptkbp:child gptkb:Judith_Sciama
gptkbp:culturalHeritage Syrian-Jewish descent
gptkbp:deathDate 1999-12-18
gptkbp:deathPlace gptkb:Oxford,_England
gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor gptkb:Paul_Dirac
gptkbp:doctoralStudent gptkb:David_Deutsch
gptkb:Martin_Rees
gptkb:Stephen_Hawking
gptkb:George_Ellis
gptkb:Philip_Candelas
gptkb:Brandon_Carter
gptkb:Gary_Gibbons
gptkb:James_Binney
gptkb:John_D._Barrow
gptkbp:employer gptkb:International_School_for_Advanced_Studies_(SISSA)
gptkb:University_of_Cambridge
gptkb:University_of_Oxford
gptkb:University_of_Texas_at_Austin
gptkbp:field gptkb:cosmology
gptkb:general_relativity
astrophysics
gptkbp:honor gptkb:Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire
gptkb:Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Dennis William Siahou Sciama
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:David_Deutsch
gptkb:Martin_Rees
gptkb:Roger_Penrose
gptkb:Stephen_Hawking
gptkb:George_Ellis
gptkb:Philip_Candelas
gptkb:Brandon_Carter
gptkb:Gary_Gibbons
gptkb:James_Binney
gptkb:John_D._Barrow
gptkbp:knownFor contributions to cosmology
mentor to Stephen Hawking
work on the origin of inertia
gptkbp:memberOf gptkb:Royal_Society
gptkbp:nationality British
gptkbp:religion atheism
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Lydia_Sciama
gptkbp:thesisTitle gptkb:On_the_Origin_of_Inertia
gptkbp:thesisYear 1953
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Dennis_Sciama
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4