Indian Scientist Ashoke Sen was honoured with Fundamental Physics Prize

Indian Scientist Ashoke Sen was honoured with Fundamental Physics Prize (FPP)on 31 July 2012. He is 56 years old. Ashoke will get the cash prize of three million dollar which is double the cash prize of Nobel Prize. He is the only Indian who was honored with this award.

He was the Professor of Physics in Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad. In the year 1988, he had joined Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai.

This Prize was started by the billionaire of Russia Yuri Milner.The prize was given to the physicists for their remarkable contribution to the field of fundamental physics. The winners of Fundamental Physics Prize were selected by Yuri Milner. Yuri Milner was the researcher in Lebedev Physical Institute.

Prof. Sen received Padma Shri award and the Indian National Science Academy in the year 2001 and 1995 respectively. He had received CSIR’s Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in the year 1994. He was also elected as the fellow of the Royal Society of London in the year 1998.

Sen studied at Presidency College of Kolkata and had successfully completed his masters from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in the year 1976. He had completed his PhD from State University of New York, Stony Brook. He also worked with Fermilab and Stanford before coming back to the Country.