Jayant Vishnu Narlikar
1938
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photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: India
educated at: Fitzwilliam College, Banaras Hindu University, University of Cambridge, Central Hindu Boys School, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
occupation: astronomer, astrophysicist, university teacher, science fiction writer
award received: Prix Jules Janssen, Maharashtra Bhushan Award, Kalinga Prize, H K Firodia awards, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, Padma Vibhushan in science & engineering, Padma Bhushan in science & engineering, Sahitya Akademi Award in Marathi, Adams Prize, honorary doctor of the University of Calcutta
Jayant Vishnu Narlikar (born 19 July 1938) is an Indian astrophysicist and emeritus professor at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA). He developed with Sir Fred Hoyle the conformal gravity theory, known as Hoyle–Narlikar theory. It synthesises Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and Mach's principle. It proposes that the inertial mass of a particle is a function of the masses of all other particles, multiplied by a coupling constant, which is a function of cosmic epoch. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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