1938 - Today
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, Jayant Narlikar ranks 484 out of 717. Before 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.
1974 - Present
HPI: 51.47
Rank: 478
1924 - 2022
HPI: 51.46
Rank: 479
1858 - 1916
HPI: 51.41
Rank: 480
1899 - 1993
HPI: 51.33
Rank: 481
1855 - 1922
HPI: 51.27
Rank: 482
1889 - 1970
HPI: 51.27
Rank: 483
1938 - Present
HPI: 51.25
Rank: 484
1908 - 1989
HPI: 51.22
Rank: 485
1896 - 1966
HPI: 51.21
Rank: 486
1881 - 1948
HPI: 51.19
Rank: 487
1926 - 1999
HPI: 51.12
Rank: 488
1865 - 1940
HPI: 51.07
Rank: 489
1886 - 1950
HPI: 51.06
Rank: 490
Among people born in 1938, Jayant Narlikar ranks 243. Before 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.
1938 - 2015
HPI: 51.40
Rank: 237
1938 - 2018
HPI: 51.36
Rank: 238
1938 - 2021
HPI: 51.33
Rank: 239
1938 - Present
HPI: 51.31
Rank: 240
1938 - 1989
HPI: 51.29
Rank: 241
1938 - 2008
HPI: 51.29
Rank: 242
1938 - Present
HPI: 51.25
Rank: 243
1938 - Present
HPI: 51.24
Rank: 244
1938 - 2004
HPI: 51.23
Rank: 245
1938 - Present
HPI: 51.22
Rank: 246
1938 - 2017
HPI: 51.20
Rank: 247
1938 - Present
HPI: 51.17
Rank: 248
1938 - 1991
HPI: 51.17
Rank: 249
Among people born in India, Jayant Narlikar ranks 369 out of 1,493. Before 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).
1832 - 1914
HPI: 51.46
Rank: 363
1979 - Present
HPI: 51.40
Rank: 364
1725 - 1775
HPI: 51.35
Rank: 365
1916 - 2004
HPI: 51.28
Rank: 366
1934 - 1998
HPI: 51.27
Rank: 367
1904 - 1948
HPI: 51.26
Rank: 368
1938 - Present
HPI: 51.25
Rank: 369
1781 - 1830
HPI: 51.23
Rank: 370
1892 - 1963
HPI: 51.23
Rank: 371
1924 - 2010
HPI: 51.20
Rank: 372
1910 - 1967
HPI: 51.17
Rank: 373
1916 - 2006
HPI: 51.15
Rank: 374
1848 - 1925
HPI: 51.06
Rank: 375
Among physicists born in India, Jayant Narlikar ranks 6. Before 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).
1888 - 1970
HPI: 67.89
Rank: 1
1894 - 1974
HPI: 63.25
Rank: 2
1936 - 2021
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 3
1918 - 2001
HPI: 55.94
Rank: 4
1909 - 1966
HPI: 53.73
Rank: 5
1938 - Present
HPI: 51.25
Rank: 6
1919 - 1971
HPI: 50.97
Rank: 7
1893 - 1972
HPI: 49.39
Rank: 8
1932 - 2016
HPI: 45.55
Rank: 9
1925 - 2004
HPI: 42.88
Rank: 10
1926 - 2020
HPI: 41.44
Rank: 11
1949 - Present
HPI: 40.17
Rank: 12