Biography
Jayant Vishnu Narlikar, Indian cosmologist (Kolhapur, Maharashtra State 19 July 1938 – Pune, Maharashtra State 20 May 2025)
Detected the presence of bacteria in stratosphere
With M.J. Harris, N.C. Wickramasinghe, D. Lloyd, P. Rajaratman, M.P. Turner, S. Al Mufti, M.K. Wallis & F. Hoyle. The detection of living cells in stratospheric samples. Proceed. SPIE Conf. 4495:192, 2002
With M. Wainwright, N.C. Wickramasinghe, P. Rajaratman & J. Perkins. Confirmation of the presence of viable but non-culturable bacteria in the stratosphere. Intern. J. Astrobiol. 3(1):13, 2004
Described new bacteria species of stratosphere
Janibacter hoylei, Bacillus isronensis & Bacillus aryabhattai 2009 with Shivaji, Chatturvedi, Begum, Dindi, Manorama et al.
Bacillus aerius, B. aerophilus, B. stratosphericus, B. altitudinis 2006 with Shivaji, Chatturvedi, Suresh, Reddy, Dutt, Wainwright & Bhargava
ACHIEVEMENTS
With S.M.S. Chitre proposed the hypothesis of the gravitational curvature of radio waves due to the presence of galaxies (1978)
With N.C. Wickramasinghe, R. Sachs & F. Hoyle. Cosmic iron whiskers: their origin, length distribution and astrophysic consequences. Intern. J. Modern Physics D6:125, 1997
Absorber theory of radiation in expanding universes. Bull. Astron. Soc. India 23:259, 1995
With F. Hoyle & G. Burbidge. A quase steady state cosmological model with creation of matter. Astrophys. J. Part 1 410(2):437-57, 1993
With H. Arp. Flat spacetime cosmology. A unified framework for extragalactic redshifts. Astrophys. J. Part I 405(1):51-6, 1993
With K. Subramaniam. A single exhaust model for backward emission in Doppler quasars. Astrophys. J. 273:44, 1983
With M.G. Edmunds. A Doppler theory of quasars. J. Astrophys. Astron. 2:289, 1981
With P.K. Das. Anomalous redshifts of quase-stellar objects. Astrophys. J. 240:401, 1980 (provided an explanation for abnormal redshifts of quasars)
With S.M. Chitre. Gravitational screens and superluminal separation in quasars. Astrophys. J. 235:335, 1980
With N.C. Wickramasinghe, M.G. Edmunds, S.M. Chitre & S. Ramadurai. A Dust model for the cosmic / microwave background. Astrophys. Space Sci. 35:19, 1975
A new source of the origin of high enery cosmic rays (1973)
With F. Hoyle. Cosmological models in a conformally invariant gravitational theory. II. A new model. Monthly Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 155 (3):323-35, 1972
A direct particle theory of weak interactions. Il Nuovo Cimento 7A:262, 1972
On the general correspondence between field theories and the theories of direct interparticle action. Math. Proceed. Cambridge Philos. Soc. 64(4):1071-9, 1968
With F. Hoyle. A conformal theory of gravitation. Proceed. Roy. Soc. London Ser A Math. Phys. Sciences 294(1437):138-48, 1966 (developed Hoyle-Narlikar conformal gravity theory)
With F. Hoyle. A new theory of gravitation. Proceed. Roy. Soc. London Ser. A Math. Phys. Sciences 282 (1389): 191-207, 1964
Papers in Nature
With H.C. Arp, G. Burbidge & F. Hoyle. Big bang continued. Nature 357:287, 1992
With H.C. Arp, G. Burbidge, F. Hoyle & N.C. Wickramasinghe. The extragalactic universe: na alternative view. Nature 346:807, 1990
With G. Burbidge & A. Hewitt. The statistical significance of close pairs of QSOs. Nature 317:413, 1985
With T. Padmanabhan. Quantum conformal fluctuations in a singular spacetime. Nature 295:677, 1982
Quantum uncertainty in the final state of gravitational colapse. Nature 269:129, 1977
With S. Ramadurai. A new test of the cosmological nature of QSO redshifts. Nature 264:732, 1976
With P.K. Das. QSO redshifts and the steady-state cosmology. Nature 258:660, 1975
With S.M. Chitre & R.C. Kapoor. Gravitational searchlight and its astrophysical applications. Nature 252:460, 1974
With K.W.V. Appa Rao & N. Dadhich. High energy radiation from white holes. Nature 251:590, 1974 (developed white hole concept as exploding sources of energy)
Lepton creation and the Dirac relationship between fundamental constants. Nature 247:99, 1974
Singularity and matter creation in cosmological models. Nature 242:135, 1973
With F. Hoyle. The mass difference between the muon and the electron. Nature 238:86, 1972
With F. Hoyle. On the nature of mass. Nature 233:41, 1971
With F. Hoyle. Effect of quantum conditions in a Friedman cosmology. Nature 228:544, 1970
With F. Hoyle. Quantization of Wheeler-Feynman electrodynamics. Nature 225:1233, 1970
With F. Hoyle. Cosmology and electrodynamics. Nature 220:893, 1968 & 222:1040, 1969
With F. Hoyle. Cosmology and quantum electrodynamics. Nature 219:340, 1968
With F. Hoyle. Pulsed radio sources. Nature 218:123, 1968
With N. Chandra Wickramasinghe. Interpretation of cosmic microwave background. Nature 217(5135):1235-6, 1968
With N. Chandra Wickramasinghe. Microwave background in a steady-state universe. Nature 216 (5110):43-4, 1967
Role of the acceleration in relactiviscally expanding objects and its significance for the intensity variations in quasistellar sources. Nature 212:1337, 1966
With F. Hoyle & J.A. Wheeler. Electromagnetic waves from very dense stars. Nature 203:914, 1964
HONORS
Prix Janssen, Société Astronomique de France (2004)
