Class XI (Hornbill)- "The Adventure"- Jayant Narlikar
Chap- 7 The Adventure - Jayant Narlikar- Born 19 July 1938 (age 85) Kolhapur , Kolhapur State , British India (now Maharashtra , India) Alma mater BHU Cambridge University Known for Quasi-steady state cosmology Hoyle-Narlikar theory of gravity Awards • Smith's Prize (1962) • Padma Bhushan (1965) • Adams Prize (1967) • Kalinga Prize (1996) • Padma Vibhushan (2004) • Prix Jules Janssen (2004) • Maharashtra Bhushan (2010) • Sahitya Akademi Award (2014) Jayant Vishnu Narlikar FNA , FASc , FTWAS (born 19 July 1938) 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 mas