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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 (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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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 (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 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  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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