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{{Short description | Indian theoretical physicist (born 1956)}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Varun Sahni
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1956|3|29}}
| birth_place = India
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| residence nationality = [[PuneIndia|Indian]], [[Maharashtra]], India
| nationality = [[Indian nationality|Indian]]
| fields = {{ublist | [[Astrophysics]] | [[Astronomy]] }}
| workplaces = {{ublist | [[Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics]] }}
| alma_matereducation = [[Moscow State University]] (PhD)
| doctoral_advisor = [[Alexei Starobinsky]]
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| father = [[Bhisham Sahni]]
| uncle = [[Balraj Sahni]]
| known_for = Studies on Dark Energy, large-scale structure of the Universe
| awards = {{ublist| 2000 [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]] (2000)| 2014 Homi Bhabha Medal (2014)}}
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'''Varun Bhisham Sahni''' (born March 29, March 1956) is an Indian theoretical physicist, astrophysicist and a Distinguished Professor at the [[Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics]].<ref name=" Faculty">{{Cite web |url=http://www.iucaa.in:8080/iucaa/jsp/N-People.jsp |title= Faculty |date=2017-10-19 |website=Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics |access-date=2017-10-19}}</ref> Known for his research on cosmology,<ref name="Summary of faculty research interests">{{Cite web |url=http://www.iucaa.ernet.in/research.html |title=Summary of faculty research interests |date=2017-10-19 |website=Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics |access-date=2017-10-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100611140022/http://www.iucaa.ernet.in/Research.html |archive-date=2010-06-11 |url-status=usurped }}</ref> Sahni is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies viz. [[Indian Academy of Sciences]],<ref name="Fellow profile">{{Cite web |url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Sahni,_Prof._Varun_Bhisham |title=Fellow profile |date=2017-10-17 |publisher=[[Indian Academy of Sciences]] |access-date=2017-10-17}}</ref> [[Indian National Science Academy]]<ref name="INSA Year Book 2016">{{Cite web |url=http://www.insaindia.res.in/pdf/YearBook_2016.pdf |title=INSA Year Book 2016 |date=2017 |publisher=[[Indian National Science Academy]]}}</ref> and [[National Academy of Sciences, India]].<ref name="NASI fellows">{{Cite web |url=http://www.nasi.org.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=S |title=NASI fellows |date=2017 |publisher=National Academy of Sciences, India}}</ref> The [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]], the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology]], one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to physical sciences in 2000.<ref name="View Bhatnagar Awardees">{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/AwardeeList.aspx |title=View Bhatnagar Awardees |date=2017-11-11 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |access-date=2017-11-11}}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|Long link - please select award year to see details}}
 
Sahni is reported to have studied the universe, more specifically its large-scale structure, the early inflationary phase and cosmological constant.<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee">{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/Detail.aspx?AID=24 |title=Brief Profile of the Awardee |date=2017-10-17 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |access-date=2017-10-17}}</ref> His achievements include the establishment of a cosmic no-hair theorem related to inflation, analysis of the universe structure using self-developed statistical methods, discovery of novel models of [[dark energy]] and [[dark matter]], design of unified models of Inflation and dark energy and the elucidation of [[Big Bang theory]] using [[Brane cosmology|Braneworld physics]].<ref name="Indian fellow">{{Cite web |url=http://insaindia.res.in/detail/P11-1555 |title=Indian fellow |date=2017-10-17 |publisher=Indian National Science Academy |access-date=2017-10-17}}</ref> His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles<ref name="On ResearchGate">{{Cite web |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Varun_Sahni2 |title=On ResearchGate |date=2017-10-17 |access-date=2017-10-17}}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|Please see ''Selected bibliography'' section}} and the online article repository of the Indian Academy of Sciences has listed 68 of them.<ref name="Browse by Fellow">{{Cite web |url=http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/fellows/Sahni=3AVarun_Bhisham=3A=3A.html |title=Browse by Fellow |date=2017-10-17 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences |access-date=2017-10-17}}</ref>
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=== Articles ===
* {{Cite journal |last=Varun Sahni, Peter Coles |title=Approximation Methods for Non-linear Gravitational Clustering |journal=Phys. Rep. |publication-date=1995 |volume=262 |pages=1–135 |doi=10.1016/0370-1573(95)00014-8|year=1995 |issue=1–2 |bibcode=1995PhR...262....1S |arxiv=astro-ph/9505005 |s2cid=119442929 }}
* {{Cite book |last=Varun Sahni |chapter =Dark Matter and Dark Energy |title=The Physics of the Early Universe |editor=E. Papantonopoulos |volume=653 |pages=141–180 |doi=10.1007/b99562|series=Lecture Notes in Physics |year=2005 |isbn=978-3-540-22712-0 |bibcode=2004LNP2005LNP...653....3T }}
* {{Cite journal |last=Varun Sahni |title=Dark Energy |journal=Journal of Physics: Conference Series |publication-date=2006 |volume=31 |pages=115–122 |doi=10.1088/1742-6596/31/1/020|year=2006 |issue=1 |bibcode=2006JPhCS..31..115S |doi-access=free }}
* {{Cite journal |last=Varun Sahni, Arman Shafieloo, Alexei A. Starobinsky |title=Two new diagnostics of dark energy |journal=Phys. Rev. D |publication-date=2008 |volume=78 |issue=10 |pages=103502 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevD.78.103502|year=2008 |bibcode=2008PhRvD..78j3502S |arxiv=0807.3548 |s2cid=118452106 }}
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