Somak Raychaudhury
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Somak Raychaudhury (Bengali: সোমক রায়চৌধুরী) is an Indian astrophysicist. He is the Vice-Chancellor at Ashoka University and was the Director of the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune.[1] He is on leave from Presidency University, Kolkata, India,[2] where he is a Professor of Physics, and is also affiliated to the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom.[3] He is known for his work on stellar mass black holes[4][5][6] and supermassive black holes.[7] His significant contributions include those in the fields of gravitational lensing,[8] galaxy dynamics[9] and large-scale motions in the Universe, including the Great Attractor.[10]
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Nationality | Indian |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge Churchill College, Cambridge University of Oxford Trinity College, Oxford Presidency College, Calcutta University of Calcutta |
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Doctoral advisor | Donald Lynden-Bell |