Hermann Bondi
1919
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2005
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: United Kingdom
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: Trinity College, University of Cambridge
occupation: mathematician, astronomer, university teacher, physicist
award received: Fellow of the Royal Society, Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, honorary doctor of the University of Vienna, Albert Einstein Medal, honorary doctor of the University of Birmingham, honorary doctor of the University of St Andrews, Guthrie Medal and Prize, Austrian Decoration for Science and Art, honorary doctor of the University of Bath, IMA Gold Medal
position held: director general
Sir Hermann Bondi (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".: 79 Source: Wikipedia (en)
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