Prahlad Chunilal Vaidya, Indian physicist (Shahapur, Junagarh District, Gujarat State 23 March 1918 – Ahmedabad, Gujarat State 08 April 2010) Developed Vaidya metric or solution for a radiating star (1942) A generalized Kerr-Schild solution of Einstein’s equation (1973) With L.K. Patel presented a method of obtaining solutions of Einstein field equations (1999) INFLUENTIAL PAPERS The external field of a radiating star in general relativity. Curr. Science 12:183, 1943 The gravitational field of a radiating star. Proceed. Indian Acad. Sci. A 33:264, 1951 “Newtonian” time of general relativity. Nature 171 (4345):260, 1953 EPONYMY Vaidya blackhole Vaidya-Tikeker space-time metric (1982) Vaidya spacetime (1951) Vaidya region Vaidya horizons Vaidya matrix |
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