Key facts
- Born
- 15 July 1956, Kolkata
- State of birth
- Kolkata, West Bengal
- Sector
- Science & space
- Profession
- Indian physicist
- Gender
- Male
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Biography
Ashoke Sen FRS is an Indian theoretical physicist and ICTS-Infosys Madhava Chair Professor at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), Bangalore. A former distinguished professor at the Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Prayagraj, he is also an honorary fellow in National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER) India. He is also a Morningstar Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (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 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics "for opening the path to the realization that all string theories are different limits of the same underlying theory".
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Timeline
- 1956Born in Kolkata
- 1989Awarded the ICTP Prize
- 1994Awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology
- 1996Awarded the G.D. Birla Award for Scientific Research
- 1997Awarded the TWAS Prize for Physics
- 1998Awarded the Fellow of the Royal Society
- 2001Awarded the Padma Shri in science & engineering
- 2005Awarded the H K Firodia awards
- 2009Awarded the Infosys Prize
- 2012Awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
- 2013Awarded the Padma Bhushan in science & engineering
- 2014Awarded the ICTP Dirac Medal
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