Somnath Bharadwaj

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Somnath Bharadwaj
Born	Kolkata, India
Residence	India
Nationality	Indian
Fields	Physics
Institutions	Harish-Chandra Research Institute Indian Institute of Technology & Centre for Theoretical Studies
Alma mater	Indian Institute of Technology Indian Institute of Science & Raman Research Institute

Somnath Bharadwaj is an Indian theoretical physicist who works on Theoretical Astrophysics and Cosmology.

Bharadwaj was born in India, studied at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur, and later received his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Science. After having worked at the Harish-Chandra Research Institute, he is now at the Indian Institute of Technology, as an Associate Professor. He has made significant contributions to the dynamics of large-scale structure^[1] formation.

In 2003 he was selected to be one of the professors from IIT whose class room lectures would be broadcast in the Eklavya Technology Channel. ^{[2] [3] [4]}

Bharadwaj was an invited speakers on Galaxy Formation at the prestigious Indo-US Frontier of Science symposium which was organized by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2005. ^{[5] [6]}

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• Somnath Bharadwaj's page at IIT
• SPIRES database of Somnath Bharadwaj's articles
• NASA ADS database of Somnath Bharadwaj's articles