born Sept. 11, 1877, London, Eng.
died Sept. 16, 1946, Dorking, Surrey
British physicist and mathematician.
After teaching at Cambridge and Princeton, he worked as a research associate at the Mount Wilson Observatory (192344). He proposed that matter was continuously created throughout the universe (see steady-state theory ). He wrote on a wide variety of phenomena but is perhaps best known as a writer of popular books about astronomy.