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Charusita Chakravarty

Charusita Chakravarty (1964 – 2016) was an Indian academic and scientist. She was a professor of Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi since 1999. In 2009 she was conferred Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in the field of Chemical Science. In 1999, she received B.M. Birla Science Award. She was an Associate Member of the Centre for Computational Material Science, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore.

Research fields

  • Theoretical Chemistry and Chemical Physics
  • Classical and Quantum Monte Carlo
  • Molecular Dynamics
  • Structure and Dynamics of Liquids
  • Water and Hydration
  • Nucleation
  • Self-assembly

Awards

  • Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (2009)
  • B.M. Birla Science Award (1999)
  • Indian National Science Academy Medal for Young Scientists (1996)
  • Anil Kumar Bose Memorial Award of Indian National Science Academy (1999)
  • Fellowship of Indian Academy of Sciences (2006)
  • Fellowship of the Department of Science and Technology (India) (2004)

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Man Mohan Sharma

Man Mohan Sharma (born May 1, 1937 in Jodhpur, Rajasthan) is an Indian chemical engineer. He was educated at Jodhpur, Mumbai and Cambridge. At the age of 27 years, he was appointed Professor of Chemical Engineering in the Institute of Chemical Technology (UDCT), Mumbai. He later went on to become the Director of Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT/ UDCT/ UICT), the first chemical engineering professor to do so from ICT.

In 1990, he became the first Indian engineer to be elected as a Fellow of Royal Society, UK. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan (1987) and the Padma Vibhushan (2001) by the President of India. He has also been awarded the Leverhulme Medal of the Royal Society, the S.S. Bhatnagar Prize in Engineering Sciences (1973), FICCI Award (1981), the Vishwakarma medal of the Indian National Science Academy (1985), G.M. Modi Award (1991), Meghnad Saha Medal (1994), and an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (2001).

Field:

  • Chemical Engineering

Awards

Professor Sharma is a recipient of a number of prestigious academic honours and awards including the 1977 Moulton Medal of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, and is himself commemorated in the M M Sharma Medal awarded by the same institution for outstanding research contributions.

 

He won the Leverhulme Medal of the Royal Society for “for his work on the dynamics of multi-phase chemical reactions in industrial processes”. He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan (2001), and Padma Bhushan (1987) by the President of India. He was INSA President (1989-90). He is a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, Honorary Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (India), Allahabad, Fellow of the Royal Society, London. Subsequently he was elected Honorary Fellow by the Royal Academy of Engineering and is Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Engineering.

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Shankar Abaji Bhise

Dr. Shankar Abaji Bhise  was an Indian scientist. Bhise has to his credit 200 inventions, for about 40 of which he took patents. In 1910, Sir Ratan Tata set up the Tata-Bhise invention syndicate in order to finance Bhise’s inventions. Among his inventions were a washing compound and type-caster machines, including the Bhisotype which could output 1,200 characters a minute.

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Shivram Baburao Bhoje

Shivram Baburao Bhoje (born 9 April 1942) is a distinguished Indian nuclear scientist who worked in the field of fast-breeder nuclear reactor technology for forty years in the design, construction, operation, and research and development. Indian government has honoured him with Padma Shri in 2003, the fourth highest civilian award in India, for his distinguished service to science and engineering fields.

Professional

Bhoje completed one year training in Nuclear Science and Engineering at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre Training School and joined as a Scientific Officer at BARC, Trombay. He started working in the Fast Reactor Section for design of an experimental reactor. He was on a one-year deputation to the Centre d’Etudes Nucleare Cadarache, France, as a member of the design team of the 13-mW fast-breeder test reactor (FBTR) in 1969–70.

Field

  • fast-breeder nuclear reactor

Awards

  • Padma Shri, for his contribution to science and engineering 2003.
  • H K Firodia awards for his contribution science and technology 2006.
  • VASVIK Industrial Research Award, in the field of Mechanical Sciences and Technology, 1992.
  • Sir Visvesvaraya Memorial Award from Engineers Foundation.

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Subbayya Sivasankaranarayana Pillai

Subbayya Sivasankaranarayana Pillai was an Nagercoil native Indian mathematician specialising in number theory. His contribution to Waring’s problem was described in 1950 by K. S. Chandrasekharan as “almost certainly his best piece of work and one of the very best achievements in Indian Mathematics since Ramanujan”.

Fields

  • Mathematics

Known for

  • Pillai’s conjecture
  • Pillai’s arithmetical function
  • Pillai prime

Contributions

He proved the Waring’s problem for K ? 6 in 1935 under the further condition of (3k +1)/ (2k – 1) ? [1.5k] + 1 head of Leonard Eugene Dickson who around the same time proved it for K ? 7.

He showed that g(k) = 2k + l -2 where l is the largest natural number  ? (3/2)k   and hence computed the precise value of  g(6) = 73.

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Sandip Trivedi

Sandip Trivedi  is an Indian theoretical physicist working at Tata Institute for Fundamental Research (TIFR) at Mumbai, India, while he is its current Director. He is well known for his contributions to string theory, in particular finding (along with Renata Kallosh, Andrei Linde, and Shamit Kachru) the first models of accelerated expansion of the universe in low energy supersymmetric string. His research areas include string theory, cosmology and particle physics. He is now member of program advisory board of International Center for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS). He is also the recipient of the Infosys Prize 2010 in the category of Physical Sciences.

Fields

  • Theoretical physics

Institutions

  • Indian  Institute of Technology Kanpur
  • California Institute of Technology
  • Institute for Advanced Study
  • TIFR

Notable awards

  • Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award
  • Infosys Prize
  • TWAS Prize

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Har Gobind Khorana

Har Gobind Khorana (9 January 1922 – 9 November 2011), was an Indian-American biochemist who shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley for research that showed how the order of nucleotides in nucleic acids, which carry the genetic code of the cell, control the cell’s synthesis of proteins. Khorana and Nirenberg were also awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University in the same year.

Khorana was born in Raipur, British India (today Tehsil Kabirwala, Punjab, Pakistan) and later moved to become an Indian citizen after the partition of 1947. 

Fields 

  • Molecular biology

Institutions

  • MIT (1970–2007)
  • University of Wisconsin, Madison (1960–70)
  • University of British Columbia (1952–60)
  • University of Cambridge (1950–52)
  • Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (1948–49)

Notable awards

  • Nobel Prize in Medicine (1968)
  • Gairdner Foundation International Award (1980)
  • Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
  • ForMemRS (1978)
  • Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
  • Padma Vibhushan
  • Willard Gibbs Award

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Ashok Das

 
 
Ashok Das (born March 23, 1953) is an Indian American theoretical physicist, an author and award winning teacher of Physics. He is professor of physics at University of  Rochester  and  Ajunct professor of Physics at Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata and India and Institute of Physics, Bhabaneswar, India.
 
 Das was born in  Puri, Odisha. He received his BS (honours) in 1972 and MS in 1974 in physics from University of Delhi. He did his graduate studies in supersymmetry and supergravity at State University of New York at Stony Brook. He received his PhD (Spin 3/2 Fields and Supergravity Theories) in 1977.
 
He was a research associate at the City College of New York, the University of Maryland and at Rutgers University before joining the University of Rochester in 1982. He was promoted to professor in 1993 and is still there. He is also the adjunct professor of physics at Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics in India.
 
Das’ research is in the area of theoretical high energy physics. He works on supersymmetry and supergravity. In recent years, he has worked extensively on non-linear integrable systems, which are systems which in spite of their complicated appearance can be exactly solved. He has also been working on finite temperature field theories, generalization of the Standard Model to incorporate CP violation, and problems in quantum field theory and string theory.
 
Institutions:
  • University of Rochester
  • Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata
Fields
  • Theoretical Physics
Awards
  • William H.Riker University Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching (2006)
  • Fulbright Fellowship (1997, 2006)
  • Rockefeller Foundation Award (2004)
  • Department of Energy Outstanding Junior Investigator (1983-1989)
  • Edward Peck Curtis Award (1991)

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Patcha Ramachandra Rao

Patcha Ramachandra Rao (21 March 1942 – 10 January 2010) was a metallurgist and administrator. He has the unique distinction of being the only Vice-Chancellor (2002–05) of the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) who was also a student (1963–68) and faculty (1964–92) at that institution. From 1992 to 2002, Rao was the Director of the National Metallurgical Laboratory Jamshedpur. After his tenure as Vice-Chancellor of B.H.U., in 2005, he took the reins of the Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT) as its first Vice-Chancellor. He was to serve DIAT until his superannuation in 2007. From 2007 till the end, Rao was a Raja Ramanna Fellow at the International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials, in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.

Institutions

  • Indian Institute of Technology (BHU)
  • National Metallurgical Laboratory
  • Defence Institute of Advanced Technology
  • Indian Institute of Science, Osmania University?

Fields

  • Metallurgy
  • Material science
  • Engineering

Awards

  • Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (1985)
  • National Metallurgist Award (2004)
  • Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Gold Medal. INSA (2005)?

Honorary positions

·        President, The Asia-Pacific Academy of Materials (APAM), India Chapter

·        President, Indian Institute of Metals

·        Vice-President, Materials Research Society of India

·        Vice-President, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi.

·        Sectional President, Materials Science Section, Indian Science Congress

 

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