Jayant V Narlikar

Jayant Vishnu Narlikar is an Indian astrophysicist, emeritus professor at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics and a prolific writer. Together with Sir Fred Hoyle, he developed the the conformal gravity theory, known as the Hoyle-Narlikar theory. His work on astrophysics has been published in many books, such as From Black Clouds to Black Holes and also features in his science fiction novels The Return of Vaman, The Adventure and The Comet.