Oral history interview with Denis William Sciama, 1978 April 14.

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Oral history interview with Denis William Sciama, 1978 April 14.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82743780

Background and undergraduate years at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, and later return to Cambridge to study relativity under Paul A. M. Dirac, against father's wishes. Work with a Trinity fellowship, 1952-1958, alongside Herman Bondi, Thomas Gold, Fred Hoyle and Raymond Lyttleton, developing and extending steady state theory and doing other broad-scale theory. Move to University of Oxford, 1970, after other posts. Interest in Mach's Principle; abandonment of steady state theory; work of student Stephen Hawking on black holes; development and social context of cosmology. Also prominently mentioned are: Jacob David Bekenstein, Brandon Carter, Lidia Dina, Arthur Stanley Eddington, Albert Einstein, George Ellis, Gilman, William Hunter McCrea, Roger Penrose, Derek Raine, Martin J. Rees, Martin Ryle, Harold Spencer-Jones, Ludwig Wittgenstein; Cornell University, and Kings College (University of London).

Sound recordings: 2 sound cassettes (ca. 2.0 hrs), 1 session.Transcript: 34 p.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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