Bikash Sinha

Bikash Sinha
Born	1945 British India
Residence	Kolkata
Nationality	Indian
Fields	Physics
Alma mater	London University, Cambridge University, Presidency College, Kolkata, Scottish Church Collegiate School
Known for	High energy physics, Nuclear physics, Helium Exploration, Earthquake Precursory Study

Bikash Sinha is an Indian physicist, active in the fields of nuclear physics and high energy physics. Bikash Sinha was the director of the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics and Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre and the chairman of the Board of Governors of the National Institute of Technology, Durgapur in June 2005. He retired from service as the director of Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre and the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics in June 2009. Presently he is the Homi Bhabha Chair Professor of the Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre. He is also a member of scientific advisory board to the Prime Minister of India. He received Padma Shri in 2001 and Padma Bhushan in 2010. He is the cousin of late Atish Chandra Sinha and nephew of Bimal Chandra Sinha, Zamindar of Kandi in Murshidabad and Land Reforms Minister of West Bengal under the Chief Ministership of Bidhan Chandra Ray.

Bikash Sinha was born in 1945. He had his schooling at the Scottish Church Collegiate School, and later studied at Presidency College, Calcutta. He graduated with a first class in physics from the Presidency College, Calcutta, then affiliated with the University of Calcutta. He obtained his Tripos from Cambridge University in natural science in 1967 and then completed his PhD from London University in 1970. He was awarded a D.Sc. from London University in 1981. Sinha lived in England for about 12 years, teaching and researching in the Rutherford High Energy Physics Laboratory and King's College, London.

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