doctoral_advisor death_date death_place work_institution birth_place religion nationality doctoral_students field birth_date known_for residence image article_title name alma_mater
k. b. lal 10 may 2014 dallas , usa indian university institute of technology lucknow university gorakhpur university allahabad etah , india hindu american m. sushil k. srivastava , g. k. goswami , ramesh chandra p. , r.c.srivastava , indrajit singh , r. sudharshan , d. pathak kalyani , b. k. l. srivastava , astrophysics , physics , cosmology 10 june 1935 power of integrated tracking of quintessence fields of dark energy phantom law cosmologies inflation in brans -- dicke theory theory minneapolis/dallas , usa vinodjohri.jpg vinod johri
 vinod behari johri allahabad university gorakhpur university
vinod johri

vinod johri -lrb- 10 june 1935 -- 10 may 2014 -rrb- was an indian astrophysicist .
he was an eminent cosmologist , a retired professor of astrophysics at indian institute of technology , madras and an emeritus professor at lucknow university since 1995 .
johri had over 75 research publications and articles published in pioneering journals .
his major contributions in cosmological research included ` power law inflation , genesis of quintessence fields of dark energy and phantom cosmologies ' .
he was the co-author of the first model of power law inflation in brans -- dicke theory along with c. mathiazhagan .
he was honored by uttar pradesh government by research award of the council of science & technology -lrb- csir -rrb- .
johri spent over 45 years researching in cosmology , acting as a research guide and principal investigator of various research projects of council of scientific and industrial research , department of science & technology and university grants commission of india .
johri was a commonwealth fellow , a senior visitor at cambridge university -lrb- uk -rrb- and a fellow of royal astronomical society of london .
he worked as consultant for unesco at united nations development program in iran and as a daad fellow at university of mainz -lrb- germany -rrb- , as a visiting scientist at hansen lab -lrb- gravity probe b group -rrb- stanford university -lrb- usa -rrb- and as an international scholar at fine theoretical physics institute at university of minnesota at minneapolis -lrb- usa -rrb- .
he died in dallas , usa at the age of 78 due to complications arising from kidney failure .
