Sir Hermann Bondi KCB FRS was an Austrian-British mathematician and cosmologist.
He is best known for developing the steady state model of the universe with Fred Hoyle and Thomas Gold as an alternative to the Big Bang theory. Wikipedia
Born: November 1, 1919, Vienna, Austria
Died: September 10, 2005 (age 85 years), Cambridge, United Kingdom
Children: Liz Bondi
Awards: Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (2001), Albert Einstein Medal (1983), Institute of Physics Michael Faraday Medal and Prize (1973), and more
Parents: Samuel Bondi
Education: Trinity College, Cambridge (M.A., 1940)