(born Sept. 11, 1877, London, Eng.—died Sept.
16, 1946, Dorking, Surrey) British physicist and mathematician. After teaching at Cambridge and Princeton, he worked as a research associate at the Mount Wilson Observatory (1923–44). He proposed that matter was continuously created throughout the universe (&see; steady-state theory). He wrote on a wide variety of phenomena but is perhaps best known as a writer of popular books about astronomy.
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