Jayant Narlikar

Jayant Narlikar FNA, FASc, FTWAS
Born	(1938-07-19) 19 July 1938 (age 86) Kolhapur, Kolhapur State, British India (now Maharashtra, India)
Alma mater	BHU Cambridge University
Known for	Quasi-steady state cosmology Hoyle-Narlikar theory of gravity
Spouse	Mangala Narlikar
Children	3
Awards	• Smith's Prize (1962) • Padma Bhushan (1965) • Adams Prize (1967) • Kalinga Prize (1996) • Padma Vibhushan (2004) • Prix Jules Janssen (2004) • Maharashtra Bhushan (2010) • Sahitya Akademi Award (2014)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics, astronomy, writer
Institutions	Cambridge University TIFR IUCAA
Doctoral advisor	Fred Hoyle
Doctoral students	Thanu Padmanabhan

Jayant Vishnu Narlikar FNA, FASc, FTWAS (born 19 July 1938) is an Indian astrophysicist and emeritus professor at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA).^[1] He developed with Sir Fred Hoyle the conformal gravity theory, known as Hoyle–Narlikar theory. It synthesises Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and Mach's principle. It proposes that the inertial mass of a particle is a function of the masses of all other particles, multiplied by a coupling constant, which is a function of cosmic epoch.