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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 18 November 1926
- Died
- 18 December 1999
- Place of birth
- Manchester
- Place of death
- Oxford
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Sciama
- Field of work
- physics, astrophysics, cosmology, astronomy, Big Bang, dark matter
- Occupation
- physicist, astrophysicist, astronomer, university teacher
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- doctoral advisor
- Paul Dirac, Hermann Bondi, Harold Neville Vazeille Temperley
- doctoral student
- Stephen Hawking, Martin Rees, George F. R. Ellis, Tim Palmer, John Barrow, Gary Gibbons, Bernard J. T. Jones, Raymond McLenaghan, Philip Candelas, John M. Stewart, Alejandro Gangui, John Charles Miller
- educated at
- University of Cambridge, Trinity College, Malvern College
- employer
- University of Oxford, Harvard University, University of Texas at Austin, Cornell University, King's College London, University of Cambridge
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- member of
- Royal Society, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation, American Philosophical Society
- name in native language
- Dennis W. Sciama
- notable work
- astrophysics
- student
- Roger Penrose, Stephen Hawking
- student of
- Paul Dirac
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