George Francis Rayner Ellis

George Francis Rayner Ellis ( born August 11, 1939 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is a cosmologist and professor of applied mathematics at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.

Life and work

Ellis studied at the University of Cape Town and received his doctorate at the University of Cambridge. He was there Lecturer ( Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Dampt ) and later professor in Cape Town.

Ellis has been a visiting professor at the University of Texas, the University of Chicago, Boston University, the University of Alberta, the University of London (Queen Mary College ) and the University of Hamburg. He was also a professor at the International School for Advanced Studies ( SISSA ) in Trieste.

In addition to his more than 200 scientific publications on cosmology and relativity is Ellis ( with Stephen Hawking ) the co-author of the standard work The Large Scale Structure of Spacetime. He is regarded as one of the leading cosmologists.

He is an active Quaker and anti-apartheid activist, and won the 2004 Templeton Prize for his contributions to the relationship between religion and science. It also deals with philosophical questions and published it.

Memberships and Honors

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society since 2007 and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa, which he was president and their Herschel Medal he received. He was president of the International Society for General Relativity and Gravitation, and is a Fellow of Third World Academy of Science. He received the Gold Medal of the South African Association for the Advancement of Sciencem, the Gold Medal of the Academy of Science of South Africa, and the Gold Medal of the South African Mathematical Society. In 2010 he received the De Beers Gold Medal of the South African Institute of Physics.

Ellis is an honorary doctor of Haverford College, the University of Natal, of Queen Mary College, University of London and a Fellow and Honorary Doctor of the University of Cape Town.

Others

Publications (selection )

Books:

With Stephen Hawking The Large Scale Structure of Space -time Cambridge University Press 1973 ISBN 0-521-09906-4
Ruth M. Williams: Flat and curved space -times, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1992, 2nd edition 2000
With Roy Maartens, Malcolm AH MacCallum Relativistic Cosmology, Cambridge University Press 2012
Published by John Wainwright Dynamical systems in cosmology, Cambridge University Press 2005
Before the beginning. Cosmology Explained, Bowerdean / Marion Boyars, 1993
With A. Lanza, J. Miller The Renaissance of General Relativity and Cosmology, Cambridge University Press 1993
With Nancey Murphy: On The Moral Nature of the universe: Cosmology, Theology, and Ethics, Fortress Press, 1996
As editor: Far - Future Universe - The Eschatology from a Cosmic Perspective (published in conjunction with the Pontifical Academy of Sciences), Templeton Foundation Press 2002
With Peter Coles Is the Universe Open or Closed? The Density of Matter in the Universe, Cambridge Lecture Notes in Physics, Cambridge University Press 1997
Editor Jeff Murugan, Amanda Weltmann Foundations of Space and Time: Reflections on Quantum Gravity, Cambridge University Press, 2012
Publisher with Nancey Murphy and Timothy O'Connor Downward Causation and the Neurobiology of Free Will, Springer Verlag, 2009
Publisher Malcolm AH MacCallum, Andrzej Krasinski Golden Oldies in General Relativity. Hidden Gems, Springer Verlag 2013

Essays and Reviews:

MAH MacCallum A class of homogeneous cosmological models, Communications in Mathematical Physics, Volume 12, 1969, pp. 108-141
With Marco Bruni covariant and gauge - invariant approach to cosmological density fluctuations, Physical Review D, Volume 40, 1989, p 1804
General Relativity and Cosmology, 47th Enrico Fermi Summer School 1971
With Henk van Elst Cosmological Models, Cargese Summer School 1998, Arxiv
With BG Schmidt singular spacetimes, General Relativity and Gravitation, Volume 8, 1977, p 915-953
Topology and Cosmology, General Relativity and Gravitation, Volume 2, 1971, p 7-21
With Roy Maartens The emergent universe: inflationary cosmology with no singularity, Classical and Quantum Gravity, Volume 21, 2004, p 223, Arxiv

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