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Abhay Ashtekar

1949 - Today

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Abhay Vasant Ashtekar (born 5 July 1949) is an Indian theoretical physicist who created Ashtekar variables and is one of the founders of loop quantum gravity and its subfield loop quantum cosmology. Ashtekar has also written a number of descriptions of loop quantum gravity that are accessible to non-physicists. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abhay Ashtekar has received more than 215,696 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Abhay Ashtekar is the 796th most popular physicist (down from 737th in 2019), the 910th most popular biography from India (down from 763rd in 2019) and the 12th most popular Indian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Abhay Ashtekar ranks 796 out of 851. Before him are Léon Rosenfeld, Emil Wolf, Cumrun Vafa, Yash Pal, Egon Orowan, and Sarah Frances Whiting. After him are Robert Detweiler, Charlotte Froese Fischer, Frank Press, Narinder Singh Kapany, Udupi Ramachandra Rao, and David J. Griffiths.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Abhay Ashtekar ranks 683. Before him are Anuradha Koirala, Eddie Hart, Mike Moore, Nancy Kyes, Zyta Gilowska, and Richard Price. After him are Raymond Martin, Jürgen Colombo, Rick Rosenthal, Alex Miller, Arturo Vázquez, and Kazimierz Lipień.

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In India

Among people born in India, Abhay Ashtekar ranks 910 out of 1,861. Before him are Aasif Mandvi (1966), Nabaneeta Dev Sen (1938), Kaifi Azmi (1919), Sushmita Sen (1975), Balbir Singh Sr. (1923), and Balram Jakhar (1923). After him are Sudha Chandran (1965), Kanan Devi (1916), Dorabji Tata (1859), Nandini Satpathy (1931), Uddhav Thackeray (1960), and Avinash Dixit (1944).

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Among PHYSICISTS In India

Among physicists born in India, Abhay Ashtekar ranks 12. Before him are Vikram Sarabhai (1919), Jayant Narlikar (1938), Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893), Tom Kibble (1932), Raja Ramanna (1925), and Daulat Singh Kothari (1906). After him are Narinder Singh Kapany (1926), Udupi Ramachandra Rao (1932), G. N. Ramachandran (1922), and Ashoke Sen (1956).

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