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George F. R. Ellis
cosmologist from South Africa
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 11 August 1939, 1939
- Place of birth
- Johannesburg
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- George
- Family name
- Ellis
- Field of work
- applied mathematics
- Occupation
- physicist, mathematician, university teacher, non-fiction writer, astronomer
- Citizenship
- South Africa
- Native language
- English
- Religion
- Quakers, Christianity
- Awards
- Templeton Prize, doctor honoris causa from the Pierre and Marie Curie University, Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa, Order of Mapungubwe in Silver, Member of the Academy of Science of South Africa, John F.W. Herschel Medal, Fellow of the Royal Society, Georges Lemaître Prize
- academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- doctoral advisor
- Dennis W. Sciama
- doctoral student
- Andrew R. King, John M. Stewart, Malcolm MacCallum, Roy Maartens, Jeffrey Murugan, Henk van Elst, Marco Bruni, Tim Gebbie, Stefano Borgani, Frederik P. Wolfaardt, Valerio Faraoni, Stanley Nel
- employer
- University of Cape Town
- Erdős number
- 3
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- member of
- International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation, International Astronomical Union
- residence
- South Africa
- student of
- Dennis W. Sciama
- work location
- Cape Town
- writing language
- English
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