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Herman Bondi

Sir
Hermann Bondi
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Born (1919-11-01)1 November 1919
Vienna, Austria
Died 10 September 2005(2005-09-10) (aged 85)
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Citizenship British
Nationality Austrian
Fields Mathematician
Physical cosmology
Institutions King's College London
University of Cambridge
Alma mater Trinity College, Cambridge
Doctoral advisor Harold Jeffreys
Arthur Eddington
Doctoral students Hans-Peter Künzle
Felix Pirani
Roger Tayler
Known for Steady State theory
Sticky bead argument
Bondi accretion
Bondi k-calculus
Atheism
Notable awards Fellow of the Royal Society
Order of the Bath

Sir Hermann Bondi KCB FRS (1 November 1919 – 10 September 2005) was an Anglo-Austrian mathematician and cosmologist. He is best known for developing the Steady State theory 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.

Bondi was born in Vienna, the son of a medical doctor. He was brought up in Vienna, where he studied at the Realgymnasium. He showed early prodigious ability at mathematics, and was recommended to Arthur Eddington by Abraham Fraenkel. Fraenkel was a distant relation, the only mathematician in the extended family, and Hermann's mother had the foresight to engineer a meeting between her young son and the famous man, knowing that this might be the key to enabling him to follow his wishes and become a mathematician himself. Eddington encouraged him to travel to England to read the mathematical tripos at Trinity College, Cambridge. He arrived in Cambridge in 1937, escaping from anti-semitism in Austria. Realising the perilous position of his parents in 1938, shortly before the Anschluss, he sent them a telegram telling them to leave Austria at once. They managed to reach Switzerland, and later settled in New York.


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