The Little Known Calcutta Scientist Whose Shoulders Hawking Stood On
Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri described the dynamics of light’s motion through the curved parts of spacetime. It was “perhaps the single most important input” for one of Hawking’s major findings.
Stephen Hawking (left; source: hawking.org.uk) and Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri (source: YouTube)
One of Stephen Hawking’s more celebrated contributions to physics had to do with...
