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Dennis Sciama
Dennis Sciama (1926–1999) was a British cosmologist who defended the steady state model of the Universe, recanted over quasar data, and mentored Stephen Hawking and Martin Rees.
Frank J. Tipler
Frank J. Tipler (born 1947) is an American mathematical physicist at Tulane University known for work in general relativity and for The Physics of Immortality (1994), setting out his Omega Point theory.
Hermann Bondi
Hermann Bondi (1919–2005) was an Austrian-born British mathematician and cosmologist who, with Fred Hoyle and Thomas Gold, formulated the steady-state theory of the universe in 1948 and made lasting contributions to general relativity.
Janna Levin
Janna Levin is a theoretical physicist, the Claire Tow Professor at Barnard College, and author of Black Hole Blues, an account of the campaign to detect gravitational waves.
Katherine Mack
Katherine (Katie) Mack is a theoretical astrophysicist and cosmologist who studies dark matter, wrote The End of Everything, and holds the Hawking Chair at Perimeter Institute.
Marcelo Gleiser
Marcelo Gleiser, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1959, is a Brazilian theoretical physicist at Dartmouth College who won the 2019 Templeton Prize and argues a theory of everything is impossible.
Otto Heckmann
Otto Heckmann (1901–1983) was a German astronomer who classified relativistic world models, led the Hamburg Observatory, and became the first Director General of the European Southern Observatory in 1962.
Rainer K. Sachs
Rainer K. Sachs (1932–2024) was a German-American mathematical physicist at Berkeley, known for the Sachs–Wolfe effect in cosmology and models of radiation damage to DNA.
Viatcheslav Mukhanov
Viatcheslav Mukhanov, born in 1956, is a Russian cosmologist and theoretical physicist who showed in 1981 that galaxies grew from quantum fluctuations amplified during cosmic inflation.
William McCrea (astronomer)
William Hunter McCrea (1904–1999) was an Irish-born astronomer and mathematician who worked on star formation, interstellar chemistry, and cosmology, and showed the steady-state theory fit general relativity.