Shrinivas Ramchandra Kulkarni was born on 4 October 1956 and is a US-based astronomer born and raised in India.
16 Facts About Shrinivas Kulkarni
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Shrinivas Kulkarni is the recipient of a number of awards and honours.
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Shrinivas Ramchandra Kulkarni was born on 4 October 1956 in the small town of Kurundwad in Maharashtra, into a Deshastha Madhva Brahmin family.
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Shrinivas Kulkarni's father, Dr R H Kulkarni, was a surgeon based in Hubballi and his mother, Vimala Kulkarni, was a home-maker.
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Shrinivas Kulkarni is one of four children and has three sisters, Sunanda Kulkarni, Sudha Murthy and Jaishree Deshpande.
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Shrinivas Kulkarni obtained his MS in Applied physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1978 and his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1983.
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In 1987, Shrinivas Kulkarni obtained a position as faculty at the California Institute of Technology.
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Shrinivas Kulkarni is known for making key discoveries that open new sub-fields within astronomy, using wide range of wavelength in observation.
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Shrinivas Kulkarni made significant contributions in these sub-fields of astronomy.
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Shrinivas Kulkarni studied Milky Way Galaxy using HI absorption under the guidance of his advisor Carl Heiles, and observed its four arms.
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Shrinivas Kulkarni discovered the first millisecond pulsar called PSR B1937+21 with Donald Backer and colleagues, while he was a graduate student.
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Shrinivas Kulkarni was instrumental in discovery of the first globular cluster pulsar in 1987 using a supercomputer.
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Shrinivas Kulkarni was a member of the Caltech team that observed the first irrefutable brown dwarf in 1994 that orbited around a star called Gliese 229.
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Shrinivas Kulkarni has been the Jury Chair for the Infosys Prize for the discipline of Physical Sciences since 2009.
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Shrinivas Kulkarni is a member of as many as four national academies around the globe.
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Shrinivas Kulkarni was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, London, in 2001, a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2003, an honorary fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences in 2012, and a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences on 12 September 2016.