Jayant Narlikar, the esteemed astrophysicist and founder of IUCAA, died in Pune on Tuesday. Born in 1938, he studied at Cambridge and later contributed significantly to cosmology, advocating alternative models to the Big Bang theory. Narlikar was also a celebrated science communicator and author, survived by his three daughters, all scientists, following the passing of his wife in 2023.
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