McCrea, Sir William Hunter (1904–99), astrophysicist, relativist, and cosmologist, was born 13 December 1904 in Ranelagh, Dublin, eldest among two sons and two daughters of Robert Hunter McCrea (1877–1956) and Margaret McCrea (née Hutton). Robert Hunter was a pharmacist by…
Florides, Petros S.
Synge, John Lighton
Synge, John Lighton (1897–1995), mathematician and theoretical physicist, was born 23 March 1897 in Dublin, youngest among one daughter and three sons of Edward Synge (1859–1939), then land agent in Kingscourt, Co. Cavan, and his wife Ellen Frances (1861–1935), daughter of the…