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| | Prof. Sir William McCrea Obituaries |
 | | He was an advocate, along with E A Milne, of the use of Newtonian Universes to provide simple derivations of general relativistic results, and he stressed, at a time when there were almost no observational facts in cosmology, the importance of developing observable relationships. |
 | | Although this was approved by the Royal Society, the net result instead was the establishment of the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy in Cambridge, led by Fred Hoyle, and of the smaller Astronomy Centre at the University of Sussex, with himself as Research Professor and the late Roger Tayler as a university professor. |
 | | He was an advocate, along with E A Milne, of the use of a Newtonian framework to provide simple derivations of the expanding universe models of general relativity, to the benefit of generations of students in cosmology lecture courses! |
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