{"id":28267,"date":"2019-07-01T14:23:20","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T06:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/nurazaliah\/?p=28267"},"modified":"2019-07-04T14:24:21","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T06:24:21","slug":"stephen-hawkings-ph-d-thesis-properties-of-expanding-universes-now-free-to-read-download-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/nurazaliah\/2019\/07\/01\/stephen-hawkings-ph-d-thesis-properties-of-expanding-universes-now-free-to-read-download-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Hawking\u2019s Ph.D. Thesis, \u201cProperties of Expanding Universes,\u201d Now Free to Read\/Download Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine being Stephen Hawking\u2019s dissertation advisor? Not that most of us can put ourselves in the shoes of eminent Cambridge physicist\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dennis_W._Sciama\">Dennis Sciama<\/a>&#8230; but imagine a student succeeding so profoundly, after having overcome such remarkable difficulty, to become the celebrated\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawking.org.uk\/\">Stephen Hawking<\/a>? One would feel immensely proud, I\u2019d guess, and maybe just a little intimidated. Some graduate-level professors might even feel threatened by such a student. It\u2019s doubtful, however, that Sciama\u2014who signed off on Hawking\u2019s thesis in 1966 and died in 1999\u2014felt this way.<\/p>\n<p>As F.R. Ellis and Roger Penrose\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2017\/10\/The%20esteemed%20colleagues%20of%20Sciama%20and%20Hawking,\">write<\/a>, when Hawking announced a significant finding about black holes in 1974, Sciama \u201cquickly recognized the importance&#8230;\u00a0hailing it as initiating a new revolution in our understanding.\u201d Despite his portrayal by David Thewlis as \u201ca kind of authoritarian gatekeeper\u201d in the Hawking biopic\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2y1xpQ0\"><em>The Theory of Everything<\/em><\/a>, Sciama \u201cwas much more than that picture suggests,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/letter\/mg22530051-100-not-quite-everything\/\">writes<\/a>\u00a0another of his highly accomplished mentees,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/physics.ku.edu\/melott-adrian-l\">Adrian Melott<\/a>; \u201che was a superb mentor who brought out the best in his students.\u201d Ellis and Penrose, themselves esteemed scientists strongly influenced by Sciama,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rsbm.royalsocietypublishing.org\/content\/roybiogmem\/56\/401.full.pdf\">write<\/a>\u00a0of his \u201castonishing succession of research students,\u201d three of whom became fellows of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/royalsociety.org\/\">the Royal Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2017\/10\/stephen-hawkings-ph-d-thesis-properties-of-expanding-universes-now-free-to-readdownload-online.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine being Stephen Hawking\u2019s dissertation advisor? Not that most of us can put ourselves in the shoes of eminent Cambridge physicist\u00a0Dennis Sciama&#8230; but imagine a student succeeding so profoundly, after having overcome such remarkable difficulty, to become the celebrated\u00a0Stephen Hawking? One would feel immensely proud, I\u2019d guess, and maybe just a little intimidated. 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