Banerjee, Asit
BANERJEE, Asit
BANERJEE, Asit. Indian, b. 1940. Genres: Physics. Career: Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India, lecturer, 1964-78, reader, 1978-86, professor of physics, 1986-, and coordinator of Relativity and Cosmology Research Centre. Institut Henri Poincare, postdoctoral fellow, 1971-72; Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, visiting professor, 1979-81; Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, senior associate. Publications: (co-author) General Relativity, Astrophysics, and Cosmology, 1992; (co-author) The Special Theory of Relativity, 2002. Contributor to scientific journals. Address: Department of Physics, Jadavpur University, Calcutta 700032, India. Online address: [email protected]
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