Nityananda, Rajaram
(2016)
Hermann Bondi (1919-2005).
Resonance: Journal of Science Education, 21 (3).
pp. 206-209.
Abstract
Hermann Bondi was born in Austria, in a Jewish family which was not very orthodox. He recounts not seeing the need for religion from a young age. His great mathematical talent was clear even in school, and he was familiar with much of classical physics by the time he finished – the main obstacle to his high school diploma being Latin. His mother arranged a meeting with
the famous English relativist and astronomer, Arthur Eddington, as a resulty of which he went to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1937. He was already interested in relativity and was initially admitted as a ‘commoner’ – a full fee-paying student.
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