Somak Raychaudhury teaches astrophysics at the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, UK. He studied at Calcutta, Oxford and Cambridge, and has been on the staff of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and IUCAA (Pune).
 

Soon after Albert Einstein published his general theory of relativity, in 1915, to describe the nature of space and time, the scientific community sought to apply it to understand the nature and origin of the Universe.  One of the first people to describe the Universe using Einstein's equations was a Belgian priest called Abbe Georges Edouard Lematre, who had also studied mathematics at Cambridge with Arthur Eddington, one of the strongest exponents of relativity. Lematre realised that if Einstein's theory was right, the Universe could not be static. In fact, right now, it must be expanding.

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Address for Correspondence
Somak Raychaudhury
   School of Physics and Astronomy      
   University of Birmingham,  Edgbaston
Birmingham B15 2TT, UK           
Email: somak@star.sr.bham.ac.uk