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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 ination, genesis of quintessence elds of dark
energy and phantom cosmologies. He was the co-author
of the rst model of power law ination in BransDicke
theory along with C. Mathiazhagan. He was honored
by Uttar Pradesh Government by Research Award of the
Council of Science & Technology (CSIR).[1]
Honors
REFERENCES
Johri was a Commonwealth Fellow and a senior visitor [7] Home. Daad.org. 13 November 2010. Retrieved 21
to Cambridge University (UK). He was also a resident
October 2011.
of Clare College, Cambridge. He was elected a Fellow of Royal Astronomical Society of London in 1978. [8] Ronald K. Hanson. The Hanson Group: Home. Hanson.stanford.edu. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
Johri was awarded the Royal Society Visiting Fellowship
in 1989 for visiting Department of Applied Mathemat- [9] http://www.ftpi.umn.edu/research/
ics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) Cambridge,[26]
Southampton University (UK), Cardi University and [10] http://naraincollege.com/
Queen Mary College, London under the Distinguished
[11] http://www.alldunivpio.org/
Scientists Exchange Program of British Council.[27] In
1993, Johri was awarded DAAD Fellowship for his visit- [12] Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University,
Gorakhpur..A NAAC Accredited B++ University.
ing assignment at Theoretical Physics Institute, Johannes
Ddugu.edu.in. 16 October 2011. Retrieved 21 October
Gutenberg University, Mainz(Germany).
2011.
Besides scientic research papers and popular science ar- [17] Gravity Probe B Media Galleries.
Einticles, Johri wrote several books on Mathematical Physics
stein.stanford.edu. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
and Astrophysics. His research monograph Early Universe was published by Hadronic Press (USA) in 1996. [18] IIT Madras Home. Iitm.ac.in. Retrieved 21 October
2011.
Vinod Johri loved to compose verses in Hindi, Urdu and
English during his leisure time.
[19] Hadronic Press. Hadronic Press. Retrieved 21 October
2011.
Personal life
Johri was married to Aruna (maiden name Kodesia) for [21] Cst U.P. Cst U.P. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
54 years. The couple had 2 sons Manoj (Software Ar- [22] Lucknow University !!!". Lkouniv.ac.in. 9 February
chitect, HP), Vivek (IT Manager, UnitedHealth Group)
2009. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
and 2 daughters Manisha (Teacher at Shishya,[31] Chennai) and Anvita (Software Development, UnitedHealth [23] Home Page Physics at Minnesota. Physics.umn.edu.
27 May 2011. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
Group).
References
[24] Phys. Rev. D 63, 103504 (2001): Genesis of cosmological tracker elds. Prd.aps.org. Retrieved 21 October
2011.
[25] Phys. Rev. D 70, 041303 (2004): Phantom cosmologies. Prd.aps.org. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
[26] DAMTP. Damtp.cam.ac.uk. 12 April 2011. Retrieved
21 October 2011.
[27] British Council. British Council. 25 October 2010. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
[28] Cst U.P. Cst U.P. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
External links
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http://arxiv.org/find/all/1/au:+johri/0/1/0/all/0/1
http://www.scientificcommons.org/vinod_b_johri
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/books?
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