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Abhay Ashtekar

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Abhay Vasant Ashtekar (born 5 July 1949) is an Indian theoretical physicist who created Ashtekar variables and is one of the founders of loop quantum gravity and its subfield loop quantum cosmology. Ashtekar has also written a number of descriptions of loop quantum gravity that are accessible to non-physicists. He is an Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus of Physics and former Director of the Institute for Gravitational Physics and Geometry (now Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos) and Center for Fundamental Theory at Pennsylvania State University. In 1999, Ashtekar and his colleagues were able to calculate the entropy for a black hole, matching a 1974 prediction by Stephen Hawking. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Abhay Ashtekar is the 789th most popular physicist (up from 796th in 2019), the 902nd most popular biography from India (up from 910th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Indian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Abhay Ashtekar ranks 789 out of 851. Before him are Henrik Svensmark, James M. Bardeen, Rolf Landauer, Robert Detweiler, Thibault Damour, and Erwin Hahn. After him are Jeffrey Goldstone, Edward C. Stone, Sverker Johansson, John Aitken, Conyers Herring, and Kees Schouhamer Immink.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Abhay Ashtekar ranks 659. Before him are Wilfried Gröbner, Lauren Shuler Donner, Aslaug Dahl, Brian Kidd, Jane Smiley, and Sunil Gavaskar. After him are Raymond Martin, Eddie Money, Roman Dmitriyev, Micky Arison, Zbigniew Jaremski, and James Williamson.

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In India

Among people born in India, Abhay Ashtekar ranks 902 out of 1,861. Before him are Amrita Singh (1958), Sunil Gavaskar (1949), Ardeshir Irani (1886), Deepak Tijori (1961), Harnaaz Sandhu (2000), and Akkineni Nageswara Rao (1923). After him are Sarojini Sahoo (1956), Shakti Kapoor (1952), Radhika Sarathkumar (1962), Gautami (1969), Tapan Sinha (1924), and Sumaira Abdulali (1961).

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Among PHYSICISTS In India

Among physicists born in India, Abhay Ashtekar ranks 11. Before him are Tom Kibble (1932), Homi J. Bhabha (1909), Jayant Narlikar (1938), Vikram Sarabhai (1919), Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893), and Udupi Ramachandra Rao (1932). After him are Daulat Singh Kothari (1906), G. N. Ramachandran (1922), Raja Ramanna (1925), Narinder Singh Kapany (1926), and Ashoke Sen (1956).

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