Renowned nuclear physicist Bikash Sinha passes away: Renowned nuclear physicist Bikash Sinha has passed away at the age of 78, was suffering from old age-related ailments. A recipient of Padma Shri in 2001 and Padma Bhusan in 2010, he was the former director of the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics and Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre. Sinha specialised in nuclear physics, high energy physics, Quark Gluon Plasma, and cosmology of the early cosmos. For the first time, he led an Indian team to engage in tests at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research in Geneva. Sinha had lived in England for around 12 years and after coming back to India he joined the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in 1976. In 1987 he was appointed the director of the Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre. He held the concurrent charge as director of the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics till 2009.
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Bikash Sinha was born on 16 June 1945 in Kandi, Murshidabad. Sinha studied Physics for his bachelor’s degree at Presidency College, Kolkata from 1961 to 1964, graduating with high honors. He then proceeded to King’s College, Cambridge, for higher studies in his subject.[10] He was the recipient of S.N. Bose Birth Centenary Award of the Indian Science Congress Association in 1994. After returning from England, Sinha joined the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Mumbai as Director of the Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre in 1976.
He was a fellow of the prestigious Indian National Science Academy as recognition of his outstanding research in Physics (1989). Sinha was also a Fellow of National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad (1993) and the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore (2004).
Sinha was the chairman of board of governors, National Institute of Technology, Durgapur (NIT Duragpur). He was nominated as a member of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister from 27 January 2005. He has been re-elected for the second time as a member of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister from December 2009.