Astronomy in India: A Historical Perspective

23.01.2014

Englisch

9788184899979

Springer India

Nein

152

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Thanu Padmanabhan, Distinguished Professor and Dean of Core Academic Programmes at IUCAA, Pune, is a world renowned theoretical physicist and cosmologist, who has authored over 200 research papers and nine books including six graduate-level textbooks published by the Cambridge University Press. His research work has won prizes from the Gravity Research Foundation (USA) five times including the First Prize in 2008. An elected Fellow of all the three Academies of Science in India, he is currently the President of the Cosmology Commission of the International Astronomical Union and was a Sackler Distinguished Astronomer of the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge. He has won numerous awards including Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award (CSIR), The Millennium Medal (CSIR), G.D. Birla Award, INSA Vainu-Bappu Medal, Al-Khwarizmi International Award, and the Miegunah Fellowship of University of Melbourne. He received the Padma Shri, the medal of honour from the President of India, in recognition of his achievements in 2007

Astronomy, Historical dev. of Calculu, Radioastronomy, Space Astronomy, Yuktibhasa

PG - Astronomie, Raum und Zeit PDA - Wissenschaftsphilosophie und -theorie PH - Physik PDX - Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften JBCC - Kulturwissenschaften

279 mm

21 cm