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88
Citations
56027
World Ranking
2349
National Ranking
7

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 2004 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences

Overview

George F. R. Ellis is affiliated with the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Physics and Astronomy, with a concentration on areas such as Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Cognitive Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, and Management Science and Operations Research.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics including Cosmology and Gravitation Theories, Quantum Mechanics and Applications, Relativity and Gravitational Theory, Origins and Evolution of Life, Black Holes and Theoretical Physics, Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function, and Gene Regulatory Network Analysis.

Recent publications from George F. R. Ellis include:

  • The data-hypothesis relationship, 2021, Genome biology
  • Contextual Emergence of Physical Properties, 2020, Foundations of Physics
  • The Causal Closure of Physics in Real World Contexts, 2020, Foundations of Physics
  • Data bias, 2021, Genome biology
  • Biological relativity revisited: the pre-eminent role of values., 2022, PubMed

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ellis are:

  • S. W. Hawking
  • Carole Bloch
  • Denis Noble
  • Rituparno Goswami
  • Teppo Felin

Publication venues featuring Ellis's work multiple times include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Foundations of Physics
  • Preprints.org
  • Genome biology
  • Classical and Quantum Gravity

Ellis has authored a book titled The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time, published by Cambridge University Press in 2023. This work has been cited extensively in the academic community.

Ellis has received recognition via fellowships, including being named a Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, in 2007, and a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences in 2004.

Best Publications

  • The large scale structure of space-time

    Stephen William Hawking;George Francis Rayner Ellis

  • The Large Scale Structure of Space‐Time

    S. W. Hawking;G. F. R. Ellis;R. K. Sachs

  • Dynamical systems in cosmology

    J. Wainwright;George Francis Rayner Ellis

  • A class of homogeneous cosmological models

    G.F.R. Ellis;Malcolm A.H. MacCallum

  • Schwarzschild black hole lensing

    K. S. Virbhadra;George F. R. Ellis

  • Large scale structure of space--time

    S.W. Hawking;G.F.R. Ellis

  • Covariant and gauge-invariant approach to cosmological density fluctuations.

    G. F. R. Ellis;M. Bruni

  • Gravitational lensing by naked singularities

    K. S. Virbhadra;K. S. Virbhadra;G. F. R. Ellis

  • Dynamics of Pressure‐Free Matter in General Relativity

    G.F.R. Ellis

  • Relativistic Cosmology: The standard model and extensions

    George F. R. Ellis;Roy Maartens;Malcolm A. H. MacCallum

  • The emergent universe: inflationary cosmology with no singularity

    George F R Ellis;Roy Maartens

  • Republication of: Relativistic cosmology

    George F. R. Ellis

  • Tilted homogeneous cosmological models

    A. R. King;G. F. R. Ellis

  • Singular space-times

    G. F. R. Ellis;B. G. Schmidt

  • Exact scalar field cosmologies

    G F R Ellis;M S Madsen

  • Relativistic cosmology: its nature, aims and problems.

    G. F. R. Ellis

  • The geometry of photon surfaces

    Clarissa-Marie Claudel;K. S. Virbhadra;G. F. R. Ellis

  • An Emergent Universe from a loop

    David J. Mulryne;Reza Tavakol;James E. Lidsey;George F. R. Ellis

  • Universe or Multiverse

    Bernard Carr;George Ellis

  • A theory of everything

    Gerard 't Hooft;Leonard Susskind;Edward Witten;Masataka Fukugita

Frequent Co-Authors

Roy Maartens
Roy Maartens University of the Western Cape
Stephen W. Hawking
Stephen W. Hawking University of Cambridge
Mark Solms
Mark Solms University of Cape Town
John B. Miller
John B. Miller National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Marek A. Abramowicz
Marek A. Abramowicz Polish Academy of Sciences
Gary W. Gibbons
Gary W. Gibbons University of Cambridge
Alan Coley
Alan Coley Dalhousie University
Hermann Nicolai
Hermann Nicolai Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
Roger Penrose
Roger Penrose University of Oxford
Joseph Silk
Joseph Silk Johns Hopkins University

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