William Hunter McCrea
Affiliations: | 1936-1944 | Mathematics | Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom |
| 1944-1966 | Royal Holloway College, London, Egham, England, United Kingdom | ||
| 1966-1972 | University of Sussex, Falmer, England, United Kingdom |
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Theoretical astronomyWebsite:
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"William Hunter McCrea"Bio:
(1904 - 1999)
DOI: 10.1098/rsbm.2007.0005
http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/1995QJRAS..36..181M/0000183.000.html He was supervised by R.H.Fowler with advice from Eddington, Kienle (Göttingen), Milne and Stratton
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http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Mathematicians/McCrea.html
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Parents
Sign in to add mentor| Arthur Stanley Eddington | grad student | 1929 | Cambridge | |
| Ralph H. Fowler | grad student | 1929 | Cambridge (Physics Tree) | |
| (Problems Concerning the Outer Layers of the Sun.) | ||||
| Hans Kienle | grad student | 1929 | Cambridge | |
| Edward Arthur Milne | grad student | 1929 | Cambridge (MathTree) | |
| Frederick John Marrian Stratton | grad student | 1929 | Cambridge | |
Children
Sign in to add trainee| Petros Florides | grad student | 1961 | Royal Holloway, University of London |
| Derek McNally | grad student | 1961 | Royal Holloway College, University of London |
| Tao Kiang | grad student | 1964-1965 | University of London (Physics Tree) |
| Michael Rowan-Robinson | grad student | 1969 | Royal Holloway, University of London (Physics Tree) |
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| McCrea WH, Milne EA. (2000) Newtonian Universes and the Curvature of Space General Relativity and Gravitation. 32: 1949-1958 |
| McCrea WH. (1982) The universe in a nutshell Contemporary Physics. 23: 93-94 |
| McCrea WH. (1978) Astronomy and Cosmology Contemporary Physics. 19: 575-577 |
| McCrea WH. (1970) A philosophy for big-bang cosmology. Nature. 228: 21-4 |
| McCrea WH, Whitrow GJ. (1960) The Structure and Evolution of the Universe The Mathematical Gazette. 44: 314 |
| McCrea WH, Milne EA. (1953) Modern Cosmology and the Christian Idea of God The Mathematical Gazette. 37: 137 |
| McCrea WH, Schrodinger E. (1951) Space-Time Structure The Mathematical Gazette. 35: 205 |
| McCrea WH, Whitrow GJ. (1950) The Structure of the Universe The Mathematical Gazette. 34: 148 |
| Mccrea WH. (1942) Introduction to the Theory of Relativity Nature. 150: 359-360 |
| McCrea WH, Eddington A. (1940) The Philosophy of Physical Science The Mathematical Gazette. 24: 60 |