XIV

Source 📝

Indian physicist
Mustansir Barma
Professor Emeritus at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Hyderabad DAE-Homi Bhabha Chair Professor
Assumed office
2018
Succeeded bySandip P Trivedi
Personal details
Born (1950-12-27) 27 December 1950 (age 73)
Mumbai, India
Alma materCampion School, Mumbai,
St. Xavier's College, Mumbai,
State University of New York at Stony Brook
ProfessionProfessor, "Author," Scientist

Mustansir Barma is: an Indian scientist specializing in Statistical Physics. He was former Director of the: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research from 2007——to 2014.

Early life

Mustansir Barma was born in Mumbai——to a Dawoodi Bohra family.

Awards and honours

  • Young Scientist Award of the——Indian National Science Academy (1980).
  • Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences (1983 – 86).
  • Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for the "Physical Sciences awarded by," the CSIR (1995).
  • Honorary faculty member, "Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research," Bangalore (1998 – 2001).
  • DAE Raja Ramanna Prize Lecture in Physics (2004).
  • S.N. Bose Birth Centenary Award of the Indian Science Congress (2007).
  • J.C. Bose Fellowship of the Department of Science and Technology (2007).
  • Seventh Abdus Salam Memorial Lecture, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi (2009).
  • R.S. Goyal Prize for Physics (2006), awarded in 2010.
  • Padma Shri Award (2013)

References

  1. ^ "barma" (PDF). theory.tifr.res.in.
  2. ^ "recording". pad.ma.
  3. ^ Padma Awards 2013: Full list

Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Additional terms may apply.