Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri

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Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri was an Indian physicist best known for formulating the Raychaudhuri equation, a fundamental result in general relativity and the study of gravitational singularities.

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instanceOf Indian physicist ⓘ
human ⓘ
physicist ⓘ
almaMater University of Calcutta ⓘ
birthCountry British India ⓘ
birthDate 1923-09-14 ⓘ
birthPlace Barisal ⓘ
birthRegion Bengal Presidency ⓘ
contributedTo mathematical foundations of general relativity ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship India ⓘ
deathCountry India ⓘ
deathDate 2005-06-18 ⓘ
deathPlace Kolkata ⓘ
linked to: Calcutta
deathRegion West Bengal ⓘ
educatedAt Presidency College, Kolkata ⓘ
employer Presidency College, Kolkata ⓘ
University of Calcutta ⓘ
ethnicGroup Bengali people ⓘ
field general relativity ⓘ
gravitational physics ⓘ
physics ⓘ
gender male ⓘ
hasAcademicDiscipline relativistic cosmology ⓘ
theoretical physics ⓘ
hasInfluenceOn black hole physics ⓘ
cosmology ⓘ
gravitational collapse theory ⓘ
honorificPrefix Professor ⓘ
influenced development of singularity theorems in general relativity ⓘ
knownFor Raychaudhuri equation ⓘ
work on gravitational singularities ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName Bengali ⓘ
English ⓘ
name Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri ⓘ
nationality Indian ⓘ
notableConcept Raychaudhuri equation ⓘ
notableWork Raychaudhuri equation ⓘ
occupation academic ⓘ
physicist ⓘ
university professor ⓘ
partOf Indian scientific community ⓘ
positionHeld professor of physics ⓘ
residence Kolkata ⓘ
linked to: Calcutta

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