Shyam Sunder Kapoor

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Shyam Sunder Kapoor
Born (1938-06-14) 14 June 1938 (age 85)
India
NationalityIndian
Alma mater
  • Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize
  • 1996 Goyal Prize
  • 2006 R. D. Birla Award
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Doctoral advisor

Shyam Sunder Kapoor (born 14 June 1938) is an Indian nuclear physicist and a former director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre. Known for his research on fission and heavy-ion physics, Kapoor is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies – Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian National Science Academy and National Academy of Sciences, India – as well as the Institute of 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, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to Physical Sciences in 1983.[1][note 1]

Biography

UC-Berkeley – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

S. S. Kapoor, born on 14 June 1938, earned an MSc from

University of Heidelberg during 1980–81. Post-retirement, he continued his association with BARC, holding the DAE-Homi Bhabha chair from 2000 to 2005.[2] Subsequently, he took up the position of a senior scientist with Indian National Science Academy and in June 2008, he was made an honorary scientist by the academy.[5]

Kapoor lives in Deonar, a suburban town of Mumbai, in Maharashtra.[6]

Legacy

A schematic nuclear fission chain reaction

Kapoor's work has been mainly in the fields of nuclear fission.[7] He studied heavy-ion fusion-fission dynamics, nuclear shell models and radiation detectors as well as particle accelerators and was associated with several accelerators including cyclotron facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Universal Linear Accelerator, Darmstadt, BARC heavy-ion accelerator at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and Tandem-Linac accelerator at

INFN), during various periods of time.[2] His research assisted in widening the understanding of light-charged particles and large scale nuclear motion and his contributions are reported in the development of a new faster process for nuclear splitting.[8] His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles[note 2] and the article repository of Indian Academy of Sciences has listed 137 of them.[9] Besides, he has published a book, Nuclear Radiation Detectors,[10] which is now a prescribed text for academic studies in many institutions such as Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda,[11] Maharshi Dayanand University,[12] Savitribai Phule Pune University[13] and Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science and Technology.[14] He has also contributed chapters to books published by others[15] and his work has drawn citations from other scientists.[16][17][18]

Kapoor was the head of the Indian scientific delegation from BARC at

Indian Science Congress held at Jaipur in 1994 and is a life member of the Indian Society for Radiation Physics.[24] A former member of the council of the Indian National Science Academy (1996–98), Kapoor has delivered several keynote or invited speeches which included the Founder's Day Address at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre[25] and DAE- Raja Ramanna Lecture in Physics on Frontiers in nuclear fission, superheavy nuclei and nuclear energy at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, both in 2003.[26]

Awards and honors

Kapoor was elected by the

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards in 1983.[28] He became an elected fellow of the remaining two major Indian science academies a decade apart, with Indian National Science Academy fellowship reaching him in 1984[29] followed by the fellowship of the National Academy of Sciences, India in 1994.[30] He received the Goyal Prize of Kurukshetra University in 1996[31] and R. D. Birla Award in 2006.[4] He is also a fellow of the Institute of Physics.[2]

Selected bibliography

Books

Chapters

Articles

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Long link – please select award year to see details
  2. ^ Please see Selected bibliography section

References

  1. ^ "View Bhatnagar Awardees". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "Indian fellow". Indian National Science Academy. 2017. Archived from the original on 13 November 2017. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
  3. ^ "Dr. Raja Ramanna". Bhabha Atomic Research Centre. 2017. Archived from the original on 23 May 2013. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
  4. ^ a b "Quarterly Newsletter" (PDF). Indian Nuclear Society. 2009. p. 5.
  5. ISBN 978-81-317-1579-6
    .
  6. ^ "NASI fellows". National Academy of Sciences, India. 2017. Archived from the original on 15 March 2016. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
  7. ^ "Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners" (PDF). Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 1999.
  8. ^ "Brief Profile of the Awardee". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2017. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
  9. ^ "Browse by Fellow". Indian Academy of Sciences. 2017.
  10. ISBN 978-0-85226-496-6
    .
  11. ^ "Syllabus 1". Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. 2017.
  12. ^ "Syllabus 2" (PDF). Maharshi Dayanand University. 2017.
  13. ^ "Syllabus 3" (PDF). Savitribai Phule Pune University. 2017.
  14. ^ "Syllabus 4" (PDF). Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science and Technology. 2017.
  15. ISBN 978-81-317-1579-6
    .
  16. ISBN 978-0-8493-1710-1
    .
  17. ISBN 978-81-224-1320-5
    .
  18. ISBN 978-1-4615-8097-3
    .
  19. ^ "Asset Bulletin" (PDF). Asset. 2017. p. 20. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
  20. ^ "Members (from April 1996 to March 1998" (PDF). Asian Committee for Future Accelerator. 2017.
  21. ^ "Minutes of the 1st ACFA Plenary Meeting" (PDF). Asian Committee for Future Accelerator. 2017.
  22. ^ "Technical Committee for Phase II". Inter-University Accelerator Centre. 2017.
  23. ^ "IPA President". Indian Physics Association. 2017.
  24. ^ "List of Life Members of ISRP" (PDF). Indian Society for Radiation Physics. 2017.
  25. ^ "Founder's Day Address". Bhabha Atomic Research Centre. 2017.
  26. ^ "DAE- Raja Ramanna Lecture". Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research. 2017. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
  27. ^ "Fellow profile". Indian Academy of Sciences. 2017.
  28. ^ "CSIR list of Awardees". Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 2017.
  29. ^ "INSA Year Book 2016" (PDF). Indian National Science Academy. 2017.
  30. ^ "NASI Year Book 2015" (PDF). National Academy of Sciences, India. 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 August 2015. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
  31. ^ "Goyal Prize" (PDF). Kurukshetra University. 2017.

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