Jayant Vishnu Narlikar
Jayant Vishnu Narlikar | |
|---|---|
| Jayant Vishnu Narlikar | |
| Born | July 19, 1938 |
| Residence | Ganeshkhind, Pune, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Known for | Big Bang, Cosmology, IAAD |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Professor of Astrophysics |
Professor Jayant Vishnu Narlikar is an Indian astrophysicist. Narlikar is a defender of the steady state cosmology. His work on conformal gravity theory with Sir Fred Hoyle, called Hoyle-Narlikar theory, demonstrated a synthesis can be achieved between Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and Mach's principle. India's second highest civilian honour, Padma Vibhushan, was awarded to him for his work. Prof. Narlikar is the founder director of the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) at Pune, India.
Abstracts
- 2002 - "A Tribute to Fred Hoyle"
Books
- 2008 - "Facts and Speculations in Cosmology" (Read in full)
- 2006 - "Current Issues in Cosmology" (Read in full)
- 2000/2005 - "A Different Approach to Cosmology: From a Static Universe through the Big Bang towards Reality" (Read in full)
- 1996 - "Lectures on Cosmology and Action at a Distance Electrodynamics (World Scientific Series in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol 1)" (Read in full)
- 1983/1986/1993/2002 - "An Introduction to Cosmology" (Read in full)
Media
- 2004 - Universe - The Cosmology Quest (Video Movie)
- 2004 - Universe - The Cosmology Quest (Video Movie)
- 2004 - The Big Bang Never Happened (Video Movie)