Jayant Vishnu Narlikar
Jayant Vishnu Narlikar (born July 19, 1938 in Kolhapur ) is an Indian astrophysicist .
Narlikar is the son of a math professor at Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi . He studied at Banaras Hindu University (bachelor's degree in 1957) and at Cambridge University , where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1960, was Wrangler and won the Tyson Medal in the Tripos Exams and won the Smith Prize in 1962 . In 1963 he received his doctorate in Cambridge with Fred Hoyle and in 1964 he made his master's degree in astronomy and astrophysics. From 1966, immediately after its establishment, he was a member of the Institute for Theoretical Astronomy in Cambridge, where he was a fellow of King's College from 1963 to 1972. In 1972 he became a professor at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Bombay , where he led the group for theoretical astrophysics. In 1988 he was founding director of the Indian Inter-University Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) in Pune .
Like Hoyle, Narlikar is a representative of alternatives to the bigbang theory in cosmology, such as the steady state theory . He also dealt with theories of action at a distance according to Richard Feynman and John Archibald Wheeler (especially in connection with the arrow of time in cosmology), with Mach's principle and with tachyons . With Hoyle in the 1960s, he developed a conforming extension of the general theory of relativity , in which Mach's principle is built: the masses of the particles are determined by the masses of all other particles in the universe using a theory at a distance ( Hoyle-Narlikar theory ). The theory is a scalar tensor theory of gravitation and leads to a time-varying gravitation constant. In 1993 he was still working with Hoyle and Geoffrey Burbidge on an extension of the steady state theory.
From 1994 to 1997 he was President of the Cosmology Commission of the International Astronomical Union. In 1996 he received the UNESCO Kalinga Prize for his contributions to popular science . He received the Indira Gandhi Award from the Indian National Science Academy in 1990, the Padma Vibhushan Order in 2004, the Padma Bhushan Order in 1965 , the Bhatnagar Award, the MP Birla Award and the Janssen Prix of the French Astronomical Society. In 1967 he received the Adams Prize in Cambridge. He is a Fellow of all three Indian National Academies of Sciences and the Third World Academy of Sciences and a member of the Royal Astronomical Society . In 1976 he received a Sc.D. Cambridge University.
He is married to a mathematician and has three daughters.
Fonts
- with Ajit Kembhavi: Quasars and active galactic nucleus introduction, Cambridge University Press 1999
- Violent phenomena in the universe, Oxford University Press 1982
- Lectures on General Relativity and Cosmology, Macmillan 1979
- Introduction to Cosmology, Cambridge University Press 1983, 1993, 2002
- with Hoyle: Lectures on cosmology and action at a distance electrodynamics, World Scientific 1996
- The lighter side of gravity, Freeman 1982, 1996
- The Seven Wonders of the Universe, Roger and Bernhard 2001 (English original: Seven wonders of the cosmos, Cambridge University Press 1999)
- From black holes to black clouds, World Scientific 1985, 1995
- with Thanu Padmanabhan : Gravity, Gauge Theories and Quantum Gravity, Reidel, Kluwer 1986
- Primeval Universe, Oxford University Press 1988
- The Structure of the Universe, Oxford University Press 1977
- Cosmic adventure, Pune 2000
- The scientific edge: the Indian scientist from Vedic to modern times, New Delhi, Penguin 2003
- with Fred Hoyle: The physics astronomy frontier, Freeman 1980
- with Fred Hoyle, Geoffrey Burbidge: A different approach to cosmology, Cambridge University Press 2000
- with Geoffrey Burbidge: Facts and Speculation in Cosmology, Cambridge University Press 2008
- An introduction to relativity, Cambridge University Press 2010
Narlikar also published some science fiction books.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hoyle, Narlikar Mach's Principle and the creation of matter , Proc. Roy. Soc., A 273, 1963, pp. 1-11, the same Action at a distance in physics and cosmology , Freeman 1974
- ↑ Hoyle, Burbidge, Narlikar A quasi-steady state cosmological model with creation of matter , The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 410, 1993, pp. 437-457, the same A different approach to cosmology , Physics Today April 1999, p. 38.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Narlikar, Jayant Vishnu |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Narlikar, Jayant; Narlikar, JV |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian astrophysicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 19, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kolhapur |