Shankar Ghosh (physicist)

Shankar Ghosh
Born	(1975-06-28) 28 June 1975 (age 49)
Nationality	Indian
Awards	S.S. Bhatnagar Prize (2019)
Scientific career
Fields	Condensed Matter Physics
Institutions	Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Shankar Ghosh (born 28 June 1975) is an Indian physicist, currently associated at the Department of Condensed Matter Physics and Material Science, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. He is known for his research on experimental condensed matter physics. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology for his contributions to physical sciences in 2019.^[1]

Awards

In 2019, Ghosh was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology for his innovative and unconventional experiments on soft matter.^[1]^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b "Awardee Details: Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize". ssbprize.gov.in. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
^ "Two from IIT-Bombay, 1 from TIFR get coveted science award". The Times of India. 28 September 2019. Retrieved 22 March 2020.

v t e Recipients of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Physical Sciences
1950s	K. S. Krishnan (1958)
1960s	M. G. K. Menon (1960) G. N. Ramachandran (1961) Vikram Sarabhai (1962) Raja Ramanna (1963) A. R. Verma (1964) B. Ramachandra Rao (1965) Suresh Chand Jain (1966) S. Ramaseshan (1966) Devendra Lal (1967) A. P. Mitra (1968) Asoke Nath Mitra (1969)
1970s	Vainu Bappu (1970) P. K. Iyengar (1971) S. Chandrasekhar (1972) S. K. Joshi (1972) Virendra Singh (1973) K. P. Sinha (1974) M. S. Sodha (1974) K. L. Chopra (1975) B. R. Nag (1975) C. K. Majumdar (1976) Ramanuja Vijayaraghavan (1976) Jayant Narlikar (1978) E. S. Raja Gopal (1978) Ajoy Ghatak (1979) S. S. Jha (1979)
1980s	N. Mukunda (1980) N. S. Satya Murthy (1980) S. M. Roy (1981) Ramanujan Srinivasan (1981) Girish Saran Agarwal (1982) T. V. Ramakrishnan (1982) S. S. Kapoor (1982) Ramamurti Rajaraman (1983) Ramanath Cowsik (1984) Ranganathan Shashidhar (1984) Narendra Kumar (1985) K. Singh (1985) P. K. Kaw (1986) Vijay Kumar Kapahi (1987) Probir Roy (1987) Deepak Kumar (1988) O. N. Srivastava (1988) M. Lakshmanan (1989) N. V. Madhusudana (1989)
1990s	G. Baskaran (1990) A. K. Sood (1990) Deepak Dhar (1991) Deepak Mathur (1991) Vikram Kumar (physicist) (1992) S. R. Shenoy (1992) Gopal Krishna (1993) Rajiah Simon (1993) A. K. Raychaudhuri (1994) Ashoke Sen (1994) Mustansir Barma (1995) Thanu Padmanabhan (1996) B. K. Chakrabarti (1997) A. Raychaudhuri (1997) S. R. Das (1998) A. M. Jayannavar (1998) Sunil Mukhi (1999) E. V. Sampathkumaran (1999)
2000s	Sriram Ramaswamy (2000) Varun Sahni (2000) Rahul Pandit (2001) Avinash Anant Deshpande (2002) Mohit Randeria (2002) G. Ravindra Kumar (2003) Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya (2003) Madan Rao (2004) Sandip Trivedi (2005) Atish Dabholkar (2006) Sanjay Puri (physicist) (2006) Yashwant Gupta (2007) Pinaki Majumdar (2007) Raghunathan Srianand (2008) Srikanth Sastry (2008) Rajesh Gopakumar (2009) Abhishek Dhar (2009)
2010s	Kalobaran Maiti (2010) Umesh Waghmare (2010) Shiraz Minwalla (2011) Arindam Ghosh (2012) Krishnendu Sengupta (2012) Amol Dighe (2013) Vijay Balakrishna Shenoy (2013) Pratap Raychaudhuri (2014) Sadiqali Abbas Rangwala (2014) Bedangadas Mohanty (2015) Mandar Madhukar Deshmukh (2015) S. Anantha Ramakrishna (2016) Sudhir Kumar Vempati (2016) Nissim Kanekar (2017) Vinay Gupta (2017) Aditi De (2018) Ambarish Ghosh (2018) Aninda Sinha (2019) Shankar Ghosh (2019)
2020s	Surajit Dhara (2020) Rajesh Ganapathy (2020) Kanak Saha (2021) Anindya Das (2022) Basudeb Dasgupta (2022)