Hermann Bondi
Hermann Bondi | |
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| Born | 1 November 1919 |
| Died | 10 September 2005 (aged 85) |
| Nationality | Austrian |
| Citizenship | British |
| Education | Trinity College, Cambridge (M.A., 1940) |
| Known for | Steady State theory Sticky bead argument Bondi accretion Bondi k-calculus Bondi mass Bondi–Metzner–Sachs group Lemaître–Tolman–Bondi metric Atheism |
| Awards | Gold Medal of the RAS (2001) Gold Medal of the IMA (1988) Albert Einstein Medal (1983) Guthrie Medal (1973) James Scott Prize Lectureship (1960-1963) Order of the Bath (1973) Fellow of the Royal Society (1959) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics Physical cosmology |
| Institutions | King's College London University of Cambridge |
| Academic advisors | Harold Jeffreys Arthur Eddington |
| Doctoral students | Felix Pirani Roger Tayler |
| 3rd Master of Churchill College, Cambridge | |
| In office 1983–1990 | |
| Preceded by | Sir William Hawthorne |
| Succeeded by | Lord Broers |
Sir Hermann Bondi KCB FRS (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