Bharat Ratra
| Bharat Vishnu Ratra | |
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| Born |
January 26, 1960 Bombay (Mumbai), India |
| Alma mater |
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (MS) Stanford University (PhD) |
| Known for |
Quintessence (physics) Dark energy |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields |
Theoretical physics Physical cosmology Astroparticle physics |
| Institutions |
Kansas State University Massachusetts Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology Princeton University Stanford University |
| Doctoral advisor |
Leonard Susskind Michael Peskin |
Bharat Vishnu Ratra (born January 26, 1960) is an Indian-American physicist and theoretical cosmologist and astroparticle physicist who is currently university distinguished professor of physics at Kansas State University.
He is known for his work on dynamical dark energy and on the quantum-mechanical generation of energy density and magnetic field fluctuations during inflation.
Ratra was born in Bombay (Mumbai). He graduated with a Master of Science in physics from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, in 1982, and completed his doctorate in physics at Stanford University in 1986 under the supervision of Leonard Susskind and Michael Peskin.
Ratra was a postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Princeton University, the California Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined Kansas State University in 1996 as an assistant professor of physics. He was promoted to associate professor in 2001 and professor in 2004.
Ratra has worked in a number of areas of cosmology and astroparticle and early universe physics.
In 1988, Ratra and Jim Peebles of Princeton University proposed the first dynamical dark energy scalar field, or quintessence, model. Dark energy is the leading candidate for the mechanism that is responsible for causing the observed accelerated cosmological expansion.
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