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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