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Somak Raychaudhury | |
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 Raychaudhury in February 2015 | |
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| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge Churchill College, Cambridge University of Oxford Trinity College, Oxford Presidency College, Calcutta University of Calcutta |
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| Doctoral advisor | Donald Lynden-Bell |
Somak Raychaudhury (Bengali: সোমক রায়চৌধুরী) is an Indian astrophysicist. He is the Vice-Chancellor at Ashoka University and was the Director of the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune.[1] He is on leave from Presidency University, Kolkata, India,[2] where he is a Professor of Physics, and is also affiliated to the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom.[3] He is known for his work on stellar mass black holes[4][5][6] and supermassive black holes.[7] His significant contributions include those in the fields of gravitational lensing,[8] galaxy dynamics[9] and large-scale motions in the Universe, including the Great Attractor.[10]
- ^ "Raychaudhury is IUCAA's new director". The Times of India. September 2015. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
- ^ "Presidency University Department of Physics". Retrieved 19 August 2013.
- ^ "Academic staff in the School of Physics and Astronomy". Retrieved 12 May 2012.
- ^ "Birmingham scientists in black hole discovery, news item on Somak Raychaudhury's research on black holes, Birmingham Mail, 9 April 2012". Retrieved 21 May 2012.
- ^ "'Ordinary' Black Hole Discovered 12 Million Light Years Away, sciencedaily.com". Retrieved 21 May 2012.
- ^ "Royal Astronomical Society Press release on Somak Raychaudhury's research". Retrieved 21 May 2012.
- ^ Bhattacharjee, Y. (2009). "A Quest for Cosmic Karma". Science. 325 (5940): 532–533. Bibcode:2009Sci...325..532B. doi:10.1126/science.325_532. PMID 19644087. an interview with Somak Raychaudhury and others on the effect of supermassive black holes in galaxy groups and clusters
- ^ "The quest for the golden lens: a perfect alignment of massive objects would offer clues to the rate of cosmic expansion, article by Charles Liu in Natural History Magazine on Somak Raychaudhury's work on gravitational lensing, September 2003". Retrieved 21 May 2012.
- ^ "Spiral metamorphosis, animation inspired by the work of Somak Raychaudhury and Donald Lynden-Bell". Archived from the original on 29 July 2012. Retrieved 21 May 2012.
- ^ "Astronomers home in on the Great Attractor, article in New Scientist, on Somak Raychaudhury's work on looking for the Great Attractor, 9 December 1989". Retrieved 21 May 2012.