Gerald James Whitrow

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According to Wikipedia, Gerald James Whitrow was a British mathematician, cosmologist and science historian. Biography Whitrow was born on 9 June 1912 at Kimmeridge in Dorset, the elder son of William and Emily Whitrow. After completing school at Christ's Hospital, he obtained a scholarship at Christ Church, Oxford in 1930, earning his first degree in 1933; he was a Harmsworth Senior Scholar at Merton College, Oxford, from 1935 to 1937, taking his MA in 1937, and was awarded his PhD in 1939. At Oxford he worked on an alternative theory of relativity with Professor Edward Arthur Milne. During World War II, he worked as a scientific officer for the Ministry of Supply. His work was on defence research, including ballistics, and he worked at Fort Halstead and Cambridge. After the war, he taught at the Imperial College, London, first as a lecturer, then as reader of applied mathematics , and as professor of the history of mathematics in 1972.

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The Natural Philosophy of Time (1963) (209)
Reflections on the history of the concept of time. (1970) (109)
Time in History: Views of Time from Prehistory to the Present Day (1988) (73)
What is time (1972) (59)
Time in history : the evolution of our general awareness of time and temporal perspective (1990) (55)
Relativistic theories of gravitation: A comparative analysis with particular reference to astronomical tests (1965) (53)
Space in Time (1970) (50)
TIME-DEPENDENT INTERNAL SOLUTIONS FOR SPHERICALLY SYMMETRICAL BODIES IN GENERAL RELATIVITY. I. ADIABATIC COLLAPSE. (1967) (46)
A New Approach to General Relativity (1961) (38)
Time in History (1988) (37)
Time-Dependent Internal Solutions for Spherically Symmetrical Bodies in General Relativity: II. Adiabatic Radial Motions of Uniformly Dense Spheres (1968) (29)
The nature of time (1973) (29)
Einstein : the man and his achievement (1973) (28)
The Mass of the Universe (1946) (26)
On the Impossibility of an Infinite Past (1978) (18)
The Laws of Motion (1971) (18)
Gravitation and Cosmology: Principles and Applications of the General Theory of Relativity (1974) (17)
The Cosmological Problem (1962) (15)
Expanding World-models Characterized by a Dimensionless Invariant (1951) (14)
Rival Theories of Cosmology (1961) (12)
IS PHYSICAL COSMOLOGY A SCIENCE? (1953) (12)
The Background Radiation in Homogeneous Isotropic World-Models, II (1964) (11)
What then is time? (1978) (11)
Sense of time (1976) (7)
ON THE FOUNDATIONS OF DYNAMICS (1950) (7)
Albert Einstein; Philosopher—Scientist . edited by Paul Arthur Schilpp. Pp. xvi + 781. The Library of Living Philosophers, Inc., Vol. vii in The Library of Living Philosophers. Price 8.50 dollars. (1951) (6)
ON EQUIVALENT OBSERVERS (1935) (6)
FOUNDATIONS OF SPECIAL RELATIVITY: KINEMATIC AXIOMS FOR MINKOWSKI SPACE‐TIME (1975) (6)
The Structure and Evolution of the Universe--An Introduction to Cosmology (1959) (6)
Concepts and Principles in the Space-Time Theory Within Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity (1966) (5)
REFLECTIONS ON THE NATURAL PHILOSOPHY OF TIME (1967) (5)
The Natural Philosophy of Time.@@@Time and the Physical World (1962) (4)
A DERIVATION OF THE LORENTZ FORMULAE (1933) (4)
CXIV. On the so-called “Clock-paradox” of special relativity (1949) (3)
PHOTONS, ENERGY, AND RED-SHIFTS IN THE SPECTRA OF NEBULAE (1936) (3)
SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE PROBLEM OF MEMORY (1967) (3)
A philosophy of science (1949) (2)
The Two-body Problem in Milne's Theory of Gravitation (1945) (2)
Minimum and Maximum Limits of Photon-Energy (1950) (2)
XIX. On the vectors and invariants of Kinematic Relativity (1945) (2)
Herbert Dingle (1979) (2)
The Importance of the History of Mathematics in Relation to the Study of Mathematical Technique (1932) (2)
Einstein, the man and his achievement : a series of broadcast talks (1967) (2)
The Epistemological Foundations of Natural Philosophy (1946) (2)
Continuity and Irrational Number (1933) (2)
Kinematical Relativity (I) : Relatively Stationary Observers (1936) (2)
An Elementary Derivation of Eddington's Number 1078 (1952) (1)
On the Interpretation of the Extragalactic Red-shifts (1954) (1)
E. A. Milne and Cosmology (1996) (1)
On the Dynamics of Self-Gravitating Spheres (1970) (1)
Kinematical Relativity (II): Equivalent Observers in Uniform Relative Motion in Skew Trajectories (1936) (1)
The Milky Way: An Elusive Road for Science by Stanley L. Jaki; The Discovery of our Galaxy by Charles A. Whitney (1974) (1)
The Evolution of Cosmology (1940) (1)
Time, Causality, and the Quantum Theory: Vol 1 (1981) (1)
Obituary: Albert Einstein (1955) (1)
Newton’s role in the history of Mathematics* (1989) (1)
XLVI. On the cause of the red shifts in the spectra of the extra-galactic nebulæ (1946) (1)
The Law of Inertia (1951) (1)
The structure of the universe : an introduction to cosmology (1949) (1)
Robert Hooke (1938) (1)
L. L. Whyte 1896–1972 (1973) (1)
XXV.—Axiomatic Treatment of Kinematical Relativity: A Reply to Dr G. C. McVittie (1943) (1)
ON THE LOBATCHEWSKIAN TRIGONOMETRY OF A STATIC SUBSTRATUM (1939) (1)
ON THE FREE PATHS IN THE SUBSTRATUM AND THE GRAVITATIONAL THEORY OF THE ORIGIN OF COSMIC RAYS (1940) (0)
Operational Analysis and the Nature of Some Physical Concepts (1950) (0)
2176. On the vector triple product formula (1950) (0)
THEORIES OF RELATIVITY (1951) (0)
2017. A new proof of two theorems on the multiplication of determinants (1948) (0)
Book-Review - Old and New Questions in Physics Cosmology Philosophy and Theoretical Biology - Essays in Honor of Yougrau, Wolfgang (1985) (0)
Falling bodies (1975) (0)
Eddingion's Principle in the Philosophy of Science . By Sir Edmund Whit-Taker, F.R.S. (Cambridge University Press. 1951. Pp. v + 35. Price 2s. 6d.) (1952) (0)
Reply to Bondi & Gold (1954) (0)
Time and the Physical World. Richard Schlegel (1963) (0)
The Special Theory of Relativity . By Herbert Dingle. (Methuen's Monographs on Physical Subjects.) (London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1940. Pp. vii + 94.) (1942) (0)
Galileo and Mathematical Demonstration (1937) (0)
Huygens' geometric realm (1989) (0)
Science and the Meanings of Truth . By Martin Johnson. (London: Faber & Faber, Ltd.1946. Pp. 179. Price 12s. 6d.) (1949) (0)
Galileo's Significance in the History of Astronomy. (1964) (0)
‘Becoming’ and the Nature of Time (1976) (0)
The Tooth of Time (1964) (0)
Book Review:Planets and Planetarians: A History of Theories of the Origins of Planetary Systems Stanley L. Jaki (1981) (0)
Classic work on astronomy (1976) (0)
Philosophic Problems of Nuclear Science. Eight lectures by Werner Heisenberg. Translated by F. C. Hayes. (London: Faber and Faber. 1952. Pp. 126. Price 16s.) (1954) (0)
Why is the Sky Dark at Night (1972) (0)
On the Foundations and Application of Finite Classical Arithmetic (1948) (0)
Philosophic Thought in France and the United States: Essays representing major trends in contemporary French and American philosophy. Edited by Marvin Farber, University of Buffalo Publications in Philosophy, New York, 1950. Pp. x + 775. $7.50. (1951) (0)
Natural Philosophy through the Eighteenth Century and Allied Topics. Commemoration Number to mark the 150th Anniversary of the foundation of the Magazine, edited by Allan Ferguson. (London: Taylor & Francis Ltd. 1948. Pp. vii, 164. Price 15s.) (1949) (0)
Rival theories of cosmology : a symposium and discussion of modern theories of the structure of the universe (1960) (0)
On the Synthetic Aspect of Mathematics (1950) (0)
From Atomos to Atom: The History of the Concept Atom . By Andrew G. van Melson. Translated by Henry J. Koren. (Duquesne University Press, Pittsburgh, 1952. Pp. xii + 240. Price 32s.) (1954) (0)
New Worlds in Physics (1974) (0)
2051. A geometrical proof of the vector triple product formula (1949) (0)
Berkeley, G. J. Warnock. (Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1953. Pp. 252. 2s.) (1955) (0)
Book-Review - Time in History (1989) (0)
Twentieth Century (1968) (0)
Prof. E. A. Milne, M.B.E., F.R.S. (1950) (0)
The Philosophy of a Physicist (1951) (0)
Relativity and the Expanding Universe (1957) (0)
16.On sums of power of the natutral numbers (1958) (0)
The A Priori in Physical Theory. By Arthur Pap. (New York: King's Crown Press; London: Geoffrey Cumberlege. 1946. Pp. 112. Price 13s. 6d.) (1949) (0)
On the meaning of uniform time, and the kinematic equivalence of the extra-galactic nebulae. Mit 3 Abbildungen. (1938) (0)

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