Ashoke Sen
| Ashoke Sen অশোক সেন |
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| Born |
15 July 1956 Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
| Residence | Kolkata, Allahabad |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions |
Fermilab Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Harish-Chandra Research Institute |
| Alma mater |
Scottish Church Collegiate School Presidency College, Kolkata University of Calcutta IIT Kanpur Stony Brook University |
| Doctoral advisor | George Sterman |
| Known for | Contributions to string field theory S-duality Sen Conjecture |
| Notable awards |
G.D. Birla Award for Scientific Research (1996) TWAS Prize (1997)Padma Shri (2001) Infosys Prize - Mathematical Sciences (2009) Fundamental Physics Prize (2012) Padma Bhushan (2013) Dirac Medal (2014) |
Ashoke Sen, FRS (Bengali: অশোক সেন; born 1956) is an Indian theoretical physicist and distinguished professor at the Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad. He also is the Morningstar Visiting professor at MIT and a distinguished professor at the Korea Institute for Advanced Study. His main area of work is String Theory. He was among the first recipients of the Fundamental Physics Prize “for opening the path to the realisation that all string theories are different limits of the same underlying theory”. Of the prizes for theoretical physics, the Fundamental Physics Prize is the one which pays the most prize money.
He was born on 15 July 1956 in Kolkata, and is the elder son of Anil Kumar Sen, a former professor of physics at the Scottish Church College, and Gouri Sen, a homemaker.
After completing his schooling from the Sailendra Sircar Vidyalaya and the Scottish Church Collegiate School in Kolkata, he earned his Bachelor of Science degree in 1975 from the Presidency College under the University of Calcutta, and his master’s a year later from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. During his undergraduate studies at Presidency, he was greatly inspired by the work and teaching of Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri. He did his doctoral work in physics at Stony Brook University.
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