| Authorised form of name | Sciama; Dennis William (1926 - 1999) |
| Dates | 1926 - 1999 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Manchester, England |
| Date of birth | 18/11/1926 |
| Date of death | 18/12/1999 |
| Research field | Physics |
| Cosmology |
| Activity | Education:
Malvern College; Trinity College Cambridge
Career:
Held Fellowships and research posts at Princeton, Harvard, and King's College studying general relativity with Bondi and Felix Pirani (1959-1961) London; Lecturer at Cambridge University, Oxford University and the International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 17/03/1983 |
| Age at election | 56 |
| Relationships | Married Lidia; two daughters |
| Source | Sources:
Guardian 28/02/00 (obituary)
Biographical Memoirs of the Royal Society, Volume 56 2010, pp 401 - 422 by George F R Ellis FRS and Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/817950 |
| Code | NA5194 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1983/32 | Sciama, Dennis William: certificate of election to the Royal Society | 1976 |
| IM/GA/SGRS/8333 | Sciama, Dennis William | 1984 |
| RR/77/195 | Referee's report by Douglas Rayner Hartree, on a paper 'The electronic band structure of PbS' by D G Bell, D M Hum, L Pincherle, Dennis William Sciama and P M Woodward | 11 October 1952 |