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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 200,591 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Abhay Ashtekar is the 737th most popular physicist (down from 691st in 2019), the 767th most popular biography from India (down from 687th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Indian Physicist.

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  • 17

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  • 3.48

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  • 2.76

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Abhay Ashtekar ranks 737 out of 717Before him are John Joly, Marcia Neugebauer, James Hartle, Daniel Kleppner, Jeffrey Goldstone, and Robert Serber. After him are Emil Wolf, Sverker Johansson, Albert-László Barabási, Bertrand Halperin, Seth Neddermeyer, and John Houghton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Abhay Ashtekar ranks 607Before him are Dave Greenfield, Viktor Kupreichik, Anna-Maria Müller, Tom Watson, Daniel DiNardo, and Henryk Wieczorek. After him are Jean-Jacques Favier, Aleksandr Salnikov, Terry Zwigoff, Delwa Kassiré Koumakoye, Montxo Armendáriz, and Ann Reinking.

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In India

Among people born in India, Abhay Ashtekar ranks 767 out of 1,493Before him are John Abraham (1972), Boman Irani (1959), Bano Qudsia (1928), M. Balamuralikrishna (1930), Maneka Gandhi (1956), and Narain Karthikeyan (1977). After him are Vikram Seth (1952), Smita Patil (1955), Mehdi Hassan (1927), Chandramukhi Basu (1860), Yogi Adityanath (1972), and Arvind Kejriwal (1968).

Among PHYSICISTS In India

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