Thanu Padmanabhan

Quick Facts

Full Name	Thanu Padmanabhan
Occupation	Indian physicist
Date Of Birth	Mar 10, 1957(1957-03-10)
Age	67
Birthplace	Thiruvananthapuram
Country	India
Birth City	Kerala
Horoscope	Pisces

Thanu Padmanabhan Biography

Thanu Padmanabhan is one of the most popular and richest Indian physicist who was born on March 10, 1957 in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.

Thanu Padmanabhan (born 10 March 1957) is an Indian theoretical physicist and cosmologist whose research spans a wide variety of topics in Gravitation, Structure formation in the universe and Quantum Gravity. He has published nearly 300 papers and reviews in international journals and ten books in these areas. He has made several contributions related to the analysis and modelling of dark energy in the universe and the interpretation of gravity as an emergent phenomenon. He is currently a Distinguished Professor at the Inter- University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, (IUCAA) at Pune, India.

In the earlier part of Padmanabhan’s career (1980-2001), he made important contributions to quantum cosmology, structure formation in the universe and statistical mechanics of gravitating systems. In the 1980s, he came up with an interpretation of the Planck length as the zero-point length’ of the spacetime based on very general considerations. This result, established by theoretical considerations and well-chosen thought experiments , finds an echo in more recent results in several other candidate models for quantum gravity. He developed the complex path method (in 1998 ) to study black hole thermodynamics which was a precursor to thetunneling paradigm’ that became quite popular later on. He is a recognized authority in the subject of the statistical mechanics of gravitating systems and was a pioneer in the systematic application of these concepts to study the gravitational clustering in an expanding universe. He has been invited to lecture twice at the Les Houches Schools (in 2002 and 2008) to a broader community about this subject.

Thanu Padmanabhan Net Worth

Thanu Padmanabhan is one of the richest Indian physicist from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Thanu Padmanabhan 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Born in 1957, Padmanabhan did his schooling in Thiruvananthapuram and earned his B.Sc. (1977) and M.Sc. (1979) in Physics, from the University College, Kerala University. He published his first research paper (on general relativity) when he was still a B.Sc. student, at the age of 20. He joined the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai in 1979 for his Ph.D. and became a faculty member there in 1980. He held various faculty positions at TIFR during 1980-1992 and also spent a year (in 1986-87) at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge. He moved to IUCAA in 1992 and served as its Dean, Core Academic Programmes, for 18 years (1997-2015).

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In addition to his scientific research, Padmanabhan works actively to popularize science and has given over 300 popular science lectures and has authored more than 100 popular science articles. He did a comic strip serial “The Story of Physics” intended for school children. Published by Vigyan Prasar (New Delhi), it was translated into half a dozen regional Indian languages and made available at an affordable price at Indian schools. To commemorate the International Year of Astronomy (IYA) 2009, he published (with J.V.Narlikar and Samir Dhurde) the IYA Astronomical Diary 2009 , which comprises 53 illustrated pages of astronomical information. In 2019, he co- authored with Vasanthi Padmanabhan the “Dawn of Science” (published by Springer). This is a lucid and captivating book which takes the reader back to the early history of all the sciences, starting from antiquity and ending roughly at the time of Newton. Each of the 24 chapters focuses on a particular and significant development in the evolution of science, and is connected in a coherent way to the others to yield a smooth, continuous storyline.

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Theofanis Ranked on the list of most popular Indian physicist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in India. Thanu Padmanabhan celebrates birthday on March 10 of every year.

In November 2016, Padmanabhan published research studies advocating a new paradigm shift in understanding gravity. A key question in quantum gravity lies in understanding the primordial, pre-geometric phase of the universe, from which the classical, geometric phase described by Einstein’s equations emerges along with the notions of space and time themselves. Padmanabhan introduced the notion of Cosmic Information (called ‘CosmIn’) which allows to connect these two phases in a fascinating manner. CosmIn, which is a conserved quantity, measures the total information transferred from the quantum gravitational phase to the classical phase of the universe. Quantum gravitational considerations advocate an astonishingly simple value for CosmIn: 4π, the number of information ‘bits’ on the surface of a sphere of unit radius. Using these considerations, CosmIn was able to relate the numerical value of the cosmological constant – possibly the deepest unsolved problem in theoretical physics today – to the energy scale at which the universe made the quantum-to-classical transition. This is the first time that a model with no adjustable parameters is able to provide a holistic explanation for both these observations, which has far-reaching implications for the quantum structure of spacetime. A non-technical account covering this latest development in Padmanabhan’s research was recently published in the magazine ‘Nautilus’.