Jayant Narlikar

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Jayant Narlikar

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Doctoral advisorFred Hoyle
Doctoral studentsThanu Padmanabhan

Jayant Vishnu Narlikar

Hoyle–Narlikar theory. It synthesises Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and Mach's principle
. It proposes that the inertial mass of a particle is a function of the masses of all other particles, multiplied by a coupling constant, which is a function of cosmic epoch.

Early life

Narlikar was born in Kolhapur, India, on 19 July 1938, into a family of scholars. His father, Vishnu Vasudev Narlikar, was a mathematician and theoretical physicist who served as Professor and Head of Department of Mathematics at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, and mother, Sumati Narlikar, was a scholar of Sanskrit. His wife was mathematician Mangala Narlikar and they have three daughters.[2][3] His maternal uncle was the distinguished statistician V. S. Huzurbazar.[4]

Career

Narlikar completed his school education from Central Hindu College [now

NCERT (National Council of Educational Research and Training
).

Honours

Narlikar has received many national and international awards and honorary doctorates. India's second-highest civilian honour,

Third World Academy of Sciences. Apart from his scientific research, Narlikar has been well known as a communicator of science through his books, articles, and radio & television programs. For these efforts, he was honoured in 1996 by UNESCO with the Kalinga Prize.[13] He was featured on Carl Sagan's TV show Cosmos: A Personal Voyage in the late 1980s. In 1989, he received the Atmaram Award by Central Hindi Directorate.[14] He received the Indira Gandhi Award of the Indian National Science Academy in 1990.[15] He also served on the Physical Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize in 2009.[16] In 2014, he received a Sahitya Akademi Award for his autobiography in Marathi, Chaar Nagarantale Maze Vishwa.[17][18] He presided over the 94th Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan held at Nashik in January 2021.[19]

Books

Besides scientific papers and books and popular science literature, Narlikar has written science fiction, novels, and short stories in English, Hindi, and Marathi. He is also the consultant for the Science and Mathematics textbooks of NCERT (National Council of Educational Research and Training, India).

Non-fiction

In English:

In Marathi:

  • आकाशाशी जडले नाते
  • नभात हसरे तारे

Fiction

In English:

  • The Return of Vaman, 1990
  • The Adventure
  • The Comet

In Marathi:

  • वामन परत न आला
  • यक्षांची देणगी
  • अभयारण्य
  • व्हायरस
  • प्रेषित
  • अंतराळातील भस्मासूर
  • टाईम मशीनची किमया
  • उजव्या सोंडेचा गणपती

In Hindi:

  • पार नज़र के

Personal life

Narlikar married mathematics researcher and professor, Mangala Narlikar (née Rajwade). The couple have three daughters: Geeta, a biomedical researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, Girija and Leelavati who are in computer science. He is the uncle of the Cambridge University social sciences academic Amrita Narlikar.

References

  1. ^ Mascarenhas, Anuradha (20 July 2018). "Astrophysicist Jayant Narlikar Turns 80: 'Despite excellent work at many labs, a Nobel Prize in science eludes India since 1930'". The Indian Express. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
  2. ^ "Jayant Vishnu Narlikar". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy. 19: 123–127. 1994. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
  3. Bibcode:2014arXiv1407.4367D
    . Retrieved 27 July 2015.
  4. ^ "Vasant Shankar Huzurbazar" (PDF). Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy: 45–50. Retrieved 28 October 2016.
  5. ^ "Face to Face with Professor Jayant V Narlikar". www.ias.ac.in. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
  6. ISBN 978-1-85410-961-3
    .
  7. ^ "About Us". World Cultural Council. Retrieved 8 November 2016.
  8. Live Mint
    . Retrieved 27 July 2015.
  9. PMID 12583913.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link
    )
  10. ^
    Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 15 October 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  11. ^ "Rashtra Bhushan" (PDF). Current Science. 52: 449. 20 May 1983.
  12. ^ "Narlikar honoured with Maharashtra Bhushan". The Times of India. 7 March 2011. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
  13. ^ "Kalinga Prize laureate". UNESCO. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
  14. ^ "List of Awardees". Khsindia. Archived from the original on 30 July 2016. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
  15. ^ "Jayant Vishnu Narlikar". Meghnad.iucaa.ernet.in. 19 July 1938. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 29 October 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  16. ^ "Infosys Prize 2009" (PDF). Infosys Science Foundation. Retrieved 19 April 2021.
  17. ^ "Sahitya Akademi award for Narlikar". The Times of India. 20 December 2014. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
  18. ^ "Akademi Awards (1955–2015)". Sahitya Akademi. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  19. ^ Botekar, Abhilash (24 January 2021). "Dr Jayant Narlikar named president for Akhil Bharitya Sahitya Sammelan at Nashik | Nashik News - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
  20. ^ Jayant V Narlikar. "From Black Clouds to Black Holes". World Scientific Series in Astronomy and Astrophysics. 13 (3rd ed.). Archived from the original on 19 May 2012. Retrieved 30 October 2016.

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