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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 913,614 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. Jayant Narlikar is the 484th most popular physicist (up from 515th in 2019), the 369th most popular biography from India (down from 358th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Indian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Jayant Narlikar ranks 484 out of 717Before him are Konstantin Novoselov, Maurice Karnaugh, William Stanley Jr., Pierre Victor Auger, Otto Lehmann, and Ernest Marsden. After him are Edoardo Amaldi, Boris Podolsky, Richard C. Tolman, Dennis W. Sciama, Pierre Weiss, and Arthur Jeffrey Dempster.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Jayant Narlikar ranks 243Before him are Richard Anthony, Lindsay Kemp, Romano Fogli, Theodor Kallifatides, Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama, and Freddie Hubbard. After him are Enzo G. Castellari, Tiziano Terzani, Stephen Breyer, Spencer Johnson, Marinella, and Mort Shuman.

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In India

Among people born in India, Jayant Narlikar ranks 369 out of 1,493Before him are Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts (1832), Vidya Balan (1979), Ahmad Shah Bahadur (1725), M. S. Subbulakshmi (1916), Mahbub ul Haq (1934), and Subhadra Kumari Chauhan (1904). After him are Swaminarayan (1781), Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy (1892), Girija Prasad Koirala (1924), Ram Manohar Lohia (1910), Bismillah Khan (1916), and Surendranath Banerjee (1848).

Among PHYSICISTS In India

Among physicists born in India, Jayant Narlikar ranks 6Before him are C. V. Raman (1888), Satyendra Nath Bose (1894), Abdul Qadeer Khan (1936), Anna Mani (1918), and Homi J. Bhabha (1909). After him are Vikram Sarabhai (1919), Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893), Tom Kibble (1932), Raja Ramanna (1925), Narinder Singh Kapany (1926), and Abhay Ashtekar (1949).