Bharat Pravas

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Born: Lahore, India; October 19, 1910
Nobel Prize: Theoretical work on stars, 1983 Physics Nobel prize for his evolution

In his famous presentation to the Royal Astronomical Society in 1933, he had stopped short of talking about a complete gravitational collapse of high mass stars, but a such a possibility had already occurred to him. To understand this possibility he concentrated his studies on the general theory of relativity and relativistic astrophysics. This work lead to his monumental publication of The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes in 1983.

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