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Jayant Narlikar

1938 - 2025

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Jayant Vishnu Narlikar (19 July 1938 – 20 May 2025) was an Indian astrophysicist who performed research on alternative cosmology. He was also an author who wrote textbooks on cosmology, popular science books, and science fiction novels and short stories. Narlikar studied at Banaras Hindu University and Cambridge University, where he obtained his PhD in 1963 working with Fred Hoyle. After postdoctoral work in Cambridge, in 1972 he was appointed a professor at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jayant Narlikar is the 489th most popular physicist (up from 526th in 2019), the 391st most popular biography from India (up from 437th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Indian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Jayant Narlikar ranks 489 out of 851. Before him are Martin Knudsen, Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, Johann Heinrich Schulze, Robert Brout, Macedonio Melloni, and Theodore Hall. After him are Johann Christian Poggendorff, Christian Mayer, Toshiko Yuasa, Meghnad Saha, Augusto Righi, and Heinrich Rubens.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Jayant Narlikar ranks 231. Before him are Per Kirkeby, Sjaak Swart, Imre Földi, James W. Christy, Michael Ritchie, and McCoy Tyner. After him are Masakatsu Miyamoto, Igor Ter-Ovanesyan, Sigitas Tamkevičius, Willi Schulz, Lee Morgan, and Deniz Baykal. Among people deceased in 2025, Jayant Narlikar ranks 157. Before him are Cleopa Msuya, Mimis Domazos, Norair Nurikyan, Jean-Louis Debré, Tom Robbins, and Buvaisar Saitiev. After him are Sly Stone, Bernhard Vogel, Kiril Ivkov, Gazi Yaşargil, Loretta Swit, and Dick Button.

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In India

Among people born in India, Jayant Narlikar ranks 391 out of 1,861. Before him are Idries Shah (1924), Rash Behari Bose (1886), Salim Ali (1896), Ramdhari Singh Dinkar (1908), Mahbub ul Haq (1934), and Rishi Kapoor (1952). After him are Ilaiyaraaja (1943), T. H. White (1906), Subramania Bharati (1882), Abdul-Qādir Bedil (1642), K. Kamaraj (1903), and Nasir-ud-Daulah (1794).

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Among PHYSICISTS In India

Among physicists born in India, Jayant Narlikar ranks 7. Before him are C. V. Raman (1888), Satyendra Nath Bose (1894), Abdul Qadeer Khan (1936), Anna Mani (1918), Tom Kibble (1932), and Homi J. Bhabha (1909). After him are Vikram Sarabhai (1919), Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893), Udupi Ramachandra Rao (1932), Abhay Ashtekar (1949), Daulat Singh Kothari (1906), and G. N. Ramachandran (1922).

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