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Jayant Narlikar was born on July 19, , in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, and was raised in Varanasi at his uncle's house.!
Jayant Narlikar was born in in Kolhapur, India.
Jayant Narlikar
Indian physicist and author
Jayant Vishnu NarlikarFNA, FASc, FTWAS (born 19 July ) is an Indian astrophysicist and emeritus professor at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA).[1] He developed with Sir Fred Hoyle the conformal gravity theory, known as 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 , 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.[