JAYANT VISHNU NARLIKAR PASSED AWAY ( AN PROMINENT PERSON OF INDIA)

BORN ON - 19TH JULY 1938 ( KOHLAPUR, MAHARASHTRA) 

DIED ON - 20TH MAY 2025 

* AN INDIAN ASTROPHYSICIST & EMERITUS PROFESSOR At The Inter - University Centre For Astronomy And Astrophysics (IUCAA).

KNOWN FOR - 

* QUASI - STEADY STATE COSMOLOGY 

* HOYLE - NARLIKAR THEORY OF GRAVITY 

AWARDS - 

* 1962 - SMITH'S PRIZE 

* 1965 - PADMA BHUSHAN 

* 1967 - ADAM'S PRIZE 

* 1996 - KALINGA PRIZE 

* 2004 - PADMA VIBHUSHAN 

* 2004 - PRIX JULES JANSSEN (FRANCE) 

* 2010 - MAHARASTRA BHUSHAN 

* 2014 - SAHITYA AKADEMI AWARD 

( FOR HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN MARATHI ( CHAAR NAGARANTALE MAZE VISHWA) 

* BHATNAGAR AWARD 

* 1989 - AATMARAM AWARD ( BY CENTRAL HINDI DIRECTORATE) 

* HE WAS FEATURED IN CARL SAGAN's TV Show Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980's) 

* He Was Presided Over The 94th Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan Held At Nashik in January 2021 

BOOKS - 

* FACTS & SPECULATION IN COSMOLOGY With G Burbridge (Cambridge University Press 2008) 

* Current Issues In Cosmology (2006) 

* A Different Approch To Cosmology: From A Static Universe Through The Big Bang Towards Reality (2005) 

* Fred Hoyle's Universe (2003) 

* Scientific Edge: The Indian Scientist From Vedic To Modern Times (2003) 

* An Introduction To Cosmology (2002) 

* A Different Approch To Cosmology 

* Quasars And Active Galactic Nuclei: An Introduction (1999) 

* From Black Clouds To Black Holes (1996)

* From Black Clouds To Black Holes (3•rd Edition 2012) 

* Seven Wonders of The COSMOS (1995) 

* Philosophy Of Science: Perspective From Natural And Social Sciences (1992) 

* The Extra Galactic Universe: An Alternative View With Fred Hoyle And Chandra Wickramasinghe (1990) 

* Highlights In Gravitation And Cosmology (1989) 

* The Primeval Universe (1988) 

* Violent Phenomena In The Universe (1982) 

* The Lighter Side Of Gravity (1982) 

* Physics - Astronomy Frontier ( Co- Author Sir Fred Hoyle 1981) 

* The Structure of Of The Universe (1977) 

* Creation Of Matter And Anomalous Redshifts (2002) 

* Absorber Theory Of Radiation In Expanding Universe (2002) 

Fiction - 

* The Return Of Vaman (1989) 

* The Adventure 

* The Comet 

* HE DEVELOPED WITH SIR FRED HOYLE THE CONFORMAL GRAVITY THEORY 

KNOWN AS - HOYLE NARLIKAR THEORY 

( IT SYNTHESIS The Albert Einstein Theory Of Relativity And Mach's Principles) 

- it Proposes That The Inertial Mass Of Particle Is Function Of The Masses Of All Others Particles, Multiplied By Coupling Constant Which Is A Function Of Cosmic Epoch.