Somak Raychaudhury
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. He is on leave from Presidency University, Kolkata, India, where he is a Professor of Physics, and is also affiliated to the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. He is known for his work on stellar mass black holes and supermassive black holes. His significant contributions include those in the fields of gravitational lensing, galaxy dynamics and large-scale motions in the Universe, including the Great Attractor.
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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 |
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