Vinod Johri, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Vinod Johri

Indian astrophysicist

Date of Birth: 10-Jun-1935

Place of Birth: Etah, Uttar Pradesh, India

Date of Death: 10-May-2014

Profession: astronomer, physicist, astrophysicist

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Vinod Johri

  • Vinod Johri (10 June 1935 – 10 May 2014) was an Indian astrophysicist.
  • He was an eminent cosmologist, a retired professor of astrophysics at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and an emeritus professor at Lucknow University since 1995.
  • Johri had over 75 research publications and articles published in pioneering journals.
  • His major contributions in cosmological research included 'power law inflation, genesis of quintessence fields of dark energy and phantom cosmologies'.
  • He was the co-author of the first model of power law inflation in Brans–Dicke theory along with C.
  • Mathiazhagan.
  • He was honored by Uttar Pradesh Government by Research Award of the Council of Science & Technology (CSIR).Johri spent over 45 years researching in cosmology, acting as a research guide and principal investigator of various research projects of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Department of Science & Technology and University Grants Commission of India.
  • Johri was a Commonwealth Fellow, a senior visitor at Cambridge University (UK) and a Fellow of Royal Astronomical Society of London.
  • He worked as consultant for UNESCO at United Nations Development Program in Iran and as a DAAD Fellow at University of Mainz (Germany), as a visiting scientist at Hansen Lab (Gravity Probe B Group) Stanford University (USA) and as an International Scholar at Fine Theoretical Physics Institute at University of Minnesota at Minneapolis (USA).
  • He died in Dallas, USA at the age of 78 due to complications arising from Kidney failure.

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