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Predhiman Krishan Kaw Born January 15, 1948
Srinagar, India
Residence Gujarat, India Nationality Indian Fields Plasma Physics, Laser Physics Institutions Institute for Plasma Research Alma mater Indian Institute of Technology
Princeton University
Physical Research LaboratoryKnown for Plasma Physics Theory Notable awards Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award
Padma ShriPredhiman Krishan Kaw is an Indian plasma physicist, who is currently the director [1] of the Institute for Plasma Research. He was born on January 15, 1948 at Srinagar(Jammu and Kashmir), India. He did his matriculation from Punjab University(1958) and completed his M.Sc. from Agra University in 1964.He received PhD from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1966 under Supervision of Prof. M.S. Sodha and has the honor of being First Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology,Delhi[2] .Though he never claims but he has acquired Ph.D. Degree at youngest age of 18. He was awarded with prestigious Padma Shri award in 1985 and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in 1986.
Selected Articles and Talks
References
- ^ "Staff Page, Institute for Plasma Research". Institute for Plasma Research. 1 February 2010. http://www.ipr.res.in//staff.html. Retrieved 1 February 2010.
- ^ "Distinguished Alumni Awards". http://cronos.rutgers.edu/~jaluria/IIT%20Delhi%20Distinguished%20Alumni%20Awards.htm.
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Recipients of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Physical Science K.S. Krishnan (1958) • M.G.K. Menon (1960) • G.N. Ramachandran (1961) • Vikram Sarabhai (1962) • Raja Ramanna (1963) • A.R. Verma (1964) • R.B. Ramachandra (1965) • S.C.Jain & S. Rameshan (1966) • Devendra Lal (1967) • A.P. Mitra (1968) • Asoke Nath Mitra (1969) • Vainu Bappu (1970) • P.K. Iyengar (1971) • S. Chandrasekhar & S.K. Joshi (1972) • Virendra Singh (1973) • K.P.Sinha & M.S. Sodha (1974) • K.L.Chopra & B.R. Nag (1975) • C.K. Majumdar & Ramanuja Vijayaraghavan (1976) • Jayant Narlikar & E.S.Rajagopal (1978) • A.K. Ghatak & S.S.Jha (1979) • N. Mukunda & N.S. Satyamurthy (1980) • S.M.Roy & Ramanujan Srinivasan (1981) • Girish Saran Agarwal & T.V. Ramakrishnan(1982) • S.S. Kapoor & Ramamurti Rajaraman (1983) • Ramanath Cowsik & Ranganathan Shashidhar (1984) • Narendra Kumar & K. Singh (1985) • P.K. Kaw (1986) • Vijay Kumar Kapahi & Probir Roy (1987) • Deepak Kumar & O.N. Srivastava (1988) • M.Lakshmanan & N.V.Madhusudhana (1989) • G. Baskaran & A.K. Sood (1990) • Deepak Dhar & Deepak Mathur (1991) • Vikram Kumar & S.R.Shenoy (1992) • Krishna Gopal & Rajiah Simon (1993) • A.K. Raychaudhuri & Ashoke Sen (1994) • Mustansir Barma (1995) • Thanu Padmanabhan (1996) • B.K. Chakrabarti & A.Raychaudhuri (1997) • S.R.Das & A.M. Jayannavar (1998) • Sunil Mukhi & E.V. Sampathkumaran (1999) • Sriram Ramaswamy & Varun Sahni (2000) • Rahul Pandit (2001) • Avinash Anant Deshpande & Mohit Randeria (2002) • G. Ravindra Kumar & Biswarup Mukhopadhyay (2003)• Madan Rao (2004) • Sandip Trivedi (2005) • Atish Dabholkar & Sanjay Puri (2006) • Yashwant Gupta & Pinaki Majumdar (2007) • Raghunathan Srianand & Srikanth Sastry (2008) • Rajesh Gopakumar & Abhishek Dhar (2009) • Kalobaran Maiti & Umesh Waghmare (2010) • Shiraz Minwalla (2011) •
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