Hermann Bondi
Sir Hermann Bondi KCB ( born 1 November 1919 in Vienna, † 10 September 2005 in Cambridge ) was a British mathematician and cosmologist Austrian descent.
Life and work
Hermann Bondi was born in Vienna, the son of Samuel Bondi heart specialists and attended a grammar school in Vienna. Bondi studied from 1937 at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. During the Second World War, he was sent in 1940 to Canada, where he met Thomas Gold, with it he formed a lifelong friendship. After returning from Canada in 1942, he worked for the British Admiralty; he worked with Fred Hoyle to improve the radar technology. Together with Fred Hoyle and Thomas Gold formulated Hermann Bondi 1948, the steady-state theory.
Bondi taught from 1945 to 1948 as Assistant Lecturer, from 1948 to 1954 as a University Lecturer in Mathematics at the University of Cambridge; 1954 to 1971 he was professor of mathematics. After that, he was from 1971 until his retirement in 1985 titular professor at King's College in London. From 1983 to 1990 Bondi Master of Churchill College, Cambridge was from 1990 to 2005 he was a Fellow.
Throughout his life he achieved many callings, including as Director General of the European Space Research Organisation (1967-1971), chief scientist at the UK Ministry of Defence (1971-1977) and at the Department of Energy (1977-1980); 1980 to 1984 he was chairman of the Natural Environment Research Council ( NERC ).
Bondi wrote several popular science books, including an introduction to the theory of relativity, which consistently focuses on space-time diagrams for explaining.
Bondi, originally a mathematician, also dealt with Kathleen Ollerenshaw with magic squares - they showed in 1982 the completeness of the list of magic squares of order 4 of Bernard Frénicle de Bessy.
Bondi married 1947 Christine Stockman, who he met when she worked as astrophysical research student at Fred Hoyle.
Awards and Honorary Appointments
1959 Bondi was accepted as a member ( "Fellow" ) to the Royal Society. In 1973 he received the Bathorden second class ( Knight Commander, abbreviated KCB ) the Order of the Bath.
Bondi practiced in several knowledge-based societies, the Office of the President of:
The universities in Sussex, Bath, Surrey, York, Southampton, Salford, Birmingham, St Andrews, Portsmouth and Vienna awarded him an honorary doctorate. Other awards:
Writings
- Cosmology, Cambridge University Press 1952, 1961 (reprinted by Dover ), 2010 ( reprint by Dover more )
- Myths and assumptions in physics, Cambridge University Press, 1971 ( reprint 1998) (English original: Assumption and Myth in Physical Theory, Cambridge University Press, 1967)
- Einstein's basics - Introduction to the Theory of Relativity, Fischer TB 1974 TR Verlagsunion 1984 ( English original: Relativity and common sense, a new approach to Einstein, Anchor Books 1964)
- Science, Churchill and me, Oxford, Pergamon Press, 1990 ( autobiography)
- Spherically symmetric models in General Relativity, Monthly Notices Roy. Astron. Soc., Volume 107, 1947, p 410