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25 Facts About Bikash Sinha

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Bikash Sinha was an Indian physicist who was active in the fields of nuclear physics and high energy physics.

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Bikash Sinha was a member of scientific advisory board to the Prime Minister of India.

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Bikash Sinha was born on 16 June 1945 in Kandi, Murshidabad.

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Bikash Sinha studied physics for his bachelor's degree at Presidency College, Kolkata from 1961 to 1964, graduating with high honors.

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Bikash Sinha then proceeded to King's College, Cambridge, for higher studies in his subject.

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Bikash Sinha joined Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai in 1976 after returning from England and was Director of Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, where he was the Homi Bhabha Chair Professor.

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Bikash Sinha retired from service as the director of Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre and the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics in June 2009.

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Bikash Sinha is credited with helping India achieve recognition in the global science community.

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Bikash Sinha contributed to making India join the search for the Higgs boson at CERN, helping the search that lasted from 2008 to 2012, which eventually culminated with the discovery of the Higgs boson.

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Bikash Sinha additionally led his team to do experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in the US and the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research in Germany.

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Bikash Sinha was the chairman of board of governors, National Institute of Technology, Durgapur.

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Bikash Sinha was nominated as a member of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister from 27 January 2005.

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Bikash Sinha has been re-elected for the second time as a member of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister from December 2009.

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Bikash Sinha died on 11 August 2023, at the age of 78, in Kolkata.

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Bikash Sinha was a member of the Visva-Bharati University's Academic Council.

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Bikash Sinha became the Fellow of the 3rd World Academy of Sciences, Italy, 2002 and Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, 2004.

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Bikash Sinha was elected to the fellowship of the Institute of Physics, UK.

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Bikash Sinha was the Vice-chancellor of West Bengal University of Technology from February 2003 to 18 December 2003 and a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee to the Cabinet, Govt.

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Bikash Sinha was awarded the Humboldt Research Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, in November 2005.

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Bikash Sinha was awarded Meghnad Saha Memorial Lecture Award from The National Academy of Sciences, India, on 28 August 2007 and he was elected as President of the Indian Physics Association in November 2007.

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Bikash Sinha was elected as Fellow of the Institute of Physics, London, in 2009.

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Bikash Sinha was conferred the Padma Bhushan Award in 2010 for his significant contribution in science and technology.

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Bikash Sinha was made a fellow of the Indian National Science Academy due to his research in Physics.

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Bikash Sinha was a Fellow of National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad and the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore.

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Bikash Sinha was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Netaji Subhas Open University in 2013, and National Institute of Technology Agartala in 2013.

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