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Physics award
In 2008, while Nature India was analysing the contribution of the eastern part of India to basic and applied science in this country, a name came up pretty regularly during interviews with scientists from the region. The name was that of Ashoke Sen. The physicist, an alumnus of east India’s Oxford — Presidency College — does not live or work in the east. In fact, his workplace for long years has been up north at the Harish Chandra Institute in Allahabad. But almost everyone in West Bengal talks of him reverentially. He was the scientist with the highest number of publications in this country. And one sticking on to the ‘string theory’ to unravel newer facets of it with every publication.
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