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Jayant Narlikar

1938 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jayant Narlikar has received more than 965,896 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Jayant Narlikar is the 525th most popular physicist (down from 484th in 2019), the 437th most popular biography from India (down from 366th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Indian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Jayant Narlikar ranks 525 out of 851. Before him are Konstantin Novoselov, George Zweig, Yakir Aharonov, Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Ernest Marsden, and Edoardo Amaldi. After him are Ralph H. Fowler, Nicola Cabibbo, Jürgen Ehlers, Boris Rosing, Samuel T. Cohen, and Edward Condon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Jayant Narlikar ranks 261. Before him are Mort Shuman, Roy Thinnes, David Bailey, Nikola Kotkov, Susan Strasberg, and Artavazd Peleshyan. After him are Myechyslaw Hryb, Ingrid Caven, Mirko Kovač, Barry Dennen, Enzo G. Castellari, and Sanjeev Kumar.

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In India

Among people born in India, Jayant Narlikar ranks 437 out of 1,861. Before him are Ram Manohar Lohia (1910), Sukhdev Thapar (1907), Mahbub ul Haq (1934), B. V. Doshi (1927), Phoolan Devi (1963), and D. R. Kaprekar (1905). After him are Subhadra Kumari Chauhan (1904), Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (1894), Jagjit Singh (1941), Abhijit Banerjee (1961), Bhimsen Joshi (1922), and Sanjeev Kumar (1938).

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Among PHYSICISTS In India

Among physicists born in India, Jayant Narlikar ranks 7. Before him are C. V. Raman (1888), Satyendra Nath Bose (1894), Anna Mani (1918), Abdul Qadeer Khan (1936), Homi J. Bhabha (1909), and Vikram Sarabhai (1919). After him are Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893), Tom Kibble (1932), Raja Ramanna (1925), Daulat Singh Kothari (1906), Abhay Ashtekar (1949), and Narinder Singh Kapany (1926).

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