| LC control no. | n 79086582 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Pirani, F. A. E. (Felix Arnold Edward), 1928-2015 |
| Variant(s) | Pirani, Felix Arnold Edward, 1928-2015 Pirani, Felix |
| Associated country | Canada |
| Associated place | London (England) London (Ont.) Toronto (Ont.) Pittsburgh (Pa.) Cambridge (England) |
| Birth date | 1928-02-02 |
| Death date | 2015-12-31 |
| Place of birth | Great Britain |
| Field of activity | Mathematical physics Children's literature, English Sculpture Mosaics |
| Affiliation | King's College London University of Western Ontario University of Toronto Carnegie Institute of Technology University of Cambridge |
| Profession or occupation | Physicists Authors Sculptors Mosaicists |
| Found in | His Local jet bundle formulation of Bäcklund transformations, 1979: t.p. (F.A.E. Pirani; Dept. of Math., King's Coll., London) CIP data sheet (Pirani, Felix Arnold Edward; b. 2/2/28) Russell, B. The ABC of relativity, 1959, c1958: t.p. (Felix Pirani) His Abigail at the beach, c1988: CIP t.p. (Felix Pirani) galley (British) Telegraph WWW site, viewed Feb. 11, 2016 (Felix Pirani, born Felix Arnold Edward Pirani, February 2 1928, in Britain; died December 31 2015; mathematical physicist whose research into Einstein's theory of relativity included outstanding work on gravitational waves; he was also a populariser, an author of fiction for children, a political activist, and, in retirement, a sculptor and mosaicist; evacuated to Canada during the Second World War; after taking degrees at the University of Western Ontario and the University of Toronto and a DSc at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, he took his PhD in Physics at Cambridge University in 1956; appointed to a lectureship at King's College London, where he spent the key part of his career as a mathematical physicist; wrote several books for children featuring a character called Abigail; latterly, he turned to sculpting and mosaics, with typically startling accomplishment) |
| Associated language | eng |
| Invalid LCCN | n 87945453 |
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