Professor George F. R. Ellis
George F. R.
Ellis, Ph.D., FRS is Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics at
the
University of Cape
Town, South Africa and GC MacVittie Visiting Professor of Astronomy at
Queen Mary College, London University, UK.
He is also Joint Editor-in-Chief of the
International Journal of General
Relativity
and Gravitation.
His
professional research
work focuses on relativity theory and cosmology, complexity studies, the
brain, science research policy, science education issues, and science
and religion studies. After earning his Ph.D. at Cambridge University
in 1964 he contributed as a Visiting Professor at many prestigious
universities, including (among others) University of Chicago, University
of Hamburg, Boston University, University of Alberta, Edmonton, and
University of Texas, Austin. From 1988 to 1993 he was the Professor of
Cosmic Physics at the International School of Advanced Studies (SISSA),
in Trieste, Italy.
George is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London (FRS), and
between 1982 and 1995 was a member of the International Committee of
International Society of Relativity and Gravitation where he served as
President from 1989 to 1992. Awards for his work include the Star of
South Africa Medal given by President Nelson Mandela in 1999, the
Templeton Prize in 2004 for making an exceptional contribution to
affirming life’s spiritual dimension, the Order of Mapungubwe (Silver)
awarded by President Thabo Mbeki in 2006; and the South Africa Institute
of Physics Gold Medal in 2010.
George has
contributed to over
300 scientific papers, mainly on relativity theory and cosmology, and
has written a number of significant books on science and policy since
his first in 1973,
The Large Scale Structure of Space Time with Stephen
Hawking.
His books include
Dynamical Systems in Cosmology,
Flat and Curved Space-Times,
Foundations of Space and Time: Reflections on Quantum
Gravity,
Downward Causation and the Neurobiology of Free Will (Understanding
Complex Systems), and
A Universe of Ethics, Morality, and Hope (Proceedings of the Second
Annual Goshen Conference on Religion and Science).
His papers include
Schwarzschild Black Hole Lensing,
Cosmological perturbations and the physical meaning of
gauge-invariant
variables,
Cosmological models (Cargese lectures 1998),
The Emergent Universe: inflationary cosmology with no
singularity,
Gauge-invariant perturbations in a scalar field dominated
universe, and
The covariant approach to LRS perfect fluid spacetime
geometries.
Read
many more of his publications!
Watch
Minnesota Channel – The Legacy of Einstein : George F.R.
Ellis,
Panel – The Science and Religion Dialogue: Why It Matters,
George Ellis: The Nature of the Physical World, and
George Ellis – The Multiverse, Ultimate Causation, and God.