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 |
Area:
Theoretical astronomyWebsite:
https://baas.aas.org/pub/william-mccrea-1904-1999/release/1Google:
"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
https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral-histories/4771
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1999BAAS...31.1605M
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Mathematicians/McCrea.html
https://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/may/03/guardianobituaries
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-sir-william-mccrea-1090453.html
http://www.jstor.org/stable/3621680
https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=84447
https://books.google.com/books?id=v44cAAAAMAAJ
http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/1929MNRAS..89..483M/0000497.000.html
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Parents
Sign in to add mentorArthur 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 traineePetros 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) |
Publications
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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 |