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! 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).
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