Vijay Kumar Kapahi, Indian
radioastronomer (Quetta, Punjab 21 January 1944 – Mumbai 16 March 1999) Authored about 100 papers Internationally acclaimed for his
contributions in the field of extragalactic radio sources and cosmology First showed that radio galaxies
linear sizes were considerably smaller in earlier cosmic epochs (1975) Identified a major class of radio
sources, the compact steep-spectrum sources (1981) Discovered the phenomenon of
relativistic beaming in quasar nuclei |
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