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Raymond Lyttleton1911—1995

英文简介British mathematician and theoretical astronomer (1911-1995)

英国皇家天文学会金质奖章 1959

Raymond Arthur Lyttleton FRS was a British mathematician and theoretical astronomer.

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出生: 1911 年 5 月 7 日，Warley Woods
逝世: 1995 年 5 月 16 日，剑桥
国籍: 英国、大不列颠及爱尔兰联合王国
学科: 数学、天文学、博物与综合
职业: 天文学家、数学家、板球运动员
母语 / 工作语言: 英语
母校: 剑桥大学、King Edward VI Five Ways School
工作单位: 剑桥大学

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博士导师1

William Marshall Smart

博士生1

David Barton

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所获奖项（4）

1933Tyson Medal
1959英国皇家天文学会金质奖章
1965皇家奖章
—英国皇家学会院士

学会与院士

英国皇家学会

百科正文

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He was born in Warley Woods near Birmingham and educated at King Edward VI Five Ways school in Birmingham, going from there to Clare College, Cambridge to read mathematics, graduating in 1933. He was elected a Fellow of St John's College in 1937 and appointed a lecturer in mathematics in the same year (until 1959). A keen amateur cricketer, he played minor counties cricket for Cambridgeshire from 1946–1949, making fifteen appearances. He was Reader in Theoretical Astronomy from 1959 to 1969, after which he was appointed to a specially created professorship in the subject.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1955. His application citation read: "Distinguished for his work in astronomy. Author of numerous papers on the origin and early history of the Solar System, notably his modifications of the collision theory. Showed from work of Cartan that fission of a planet by rotation would give two independent bodies, and consequently that the fission theory of binary stars is untenable (The Stability of Rotating Liquid Masses, 1953). Author (with F. Hoyle) of numerous papers on the astronomical effects of accretion, and (with H. Bondi) of two on the transmission of the tidal friction couple to the Earth's core and on the behaviour of the core during precessions. Author of a striking new theory of comets. (The Comets and their Origin, 1953)

He won the Royal Society Royal Medal in 1965 "In recognition of his distinguished contributions to astronomy, particularly for his work on the dynamical stability of galaxies."

He wrote a number of books: The Comets and Their Origin (1953), The Stability of Rotating Liquid Masses (1953), The Modern Universe {1956}, Rival Theories of Cosmology {1960}, Man's View of the Universe (1961), Mysteries of the Solar System (1968), The Earth and its Mountains (1982), The Gold Effect (1990). In 1956, he presented a 5-part television series on the B.B.C. entitled "The Modern Universe"

He had married Meave Hobden in Poole in 1939.