Sen in the Physics department of Scottish Church College in 2019
Born
(1956-07-15) 15 July 1956 (age 67)
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Alma mater
Presidency College, Kolkata (BSc)
IIT Kanpur (MSc)
Stony Brook University (PhD)
Known for
Contributions to string field theory S-duality Sen Conjecture
Spouse
Sumathi Rao
Awards
G.D. Birla Award for Scientific Research (1996)
TWAS Prize (1997)
Padma Shri (2001)
Infosys Prize - Mathematical Sciences (2009)
Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2012)
Padma Bhushan (2013)
Dirac Medal (2014)
Scientific career
Fields
Physics
Institutions
Fermilab
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Harish-Chandra Research Institute
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal
Doctoral advisor
George Sterman
Website
home.icts.res.in/~sen/
Ashoke Sen FRS (/əˈʃoʊksɛn/; born 1956) is an Indian theoretical physicist and distinguished professor at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), Bangalore.[1] A former distinguished professor at the Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad,[2] He is also an honorary fellow in National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar, India[3] he is also a 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 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics "for opening the path to the realization that all string theories are different limits of the same underlying theory".[4]
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^Pulakkat, Hari (19 December 2013). "How many of us know about Breakthrough Prize winner, Ashoke Sen?". The Economic Times. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
^"School of Physical Sciences". National Institute of Science Education and Research. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
^"Breakthrough Prize - Fundamental Physics Breakthrough Prize Laureates - Ashoke Sen". breakthroughprize.org. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
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