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 NERFINISHED
birthCountry British India NERFINISHED
birthDate 1923-09-14
birthPlace Barisal NERFINISHED
birthRegion Bengal Presidency NERFINISHED
contributedTo mathematical foundations of general relativity
countryOfCitizenship India
deathCountry India NERFINISHED
deathDate 2005-06-18
deathPlace Kolkata NERFINISHED
deathRegion West Bengal NERFINISHED
educatedAt Presidency College, Kolkata NERFINISHED
employer Presidency College, Kolkata NERFINISHED
University of Calcutta NERFINISHED
ethnicGroup Bengali people NERFINISHED
field general relativity NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
work on gravitational singularities
languageOfWorkOrName Bengali
English
name Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri NERFINISHED
nationality Indian
notableConcept Raychaudhuri equation NERFINISHED
notableWork Raychaudhuri equation NERFINISHED
occupation academic
physicist
university professor
partOf Indian scientific community
positionHeld professor of physics
residence Kolkata NERFINISHED

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