Ashy an unassuming Indian scientist in Allahabad has won the world's
biggest prize in physics . Ashoke Sen, a professor at the little known
but exclusive Harish-Chandra Research Institute
, Allahabad , was on July 31 declared one of the winners of the first
Fundamental Physics prize started by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner.
Sen and eight other scientists will get $3 million each — double of
what is given with the Nobel prize. Seven of the winners are based in
the United States, one in France and one in India. Sen has been awarded
for his pioneering work on string theory.
Typically, Ashoke Sen
deflected attention away from himself and pointed at others in the
field in India.
Yuri Milner made billions from investments in various internet-based companies after giving up his job as researcher at Moscow's Lebedev Physical Institute. He personally selected the winners of this year's award but in future the work would be done by a panel.
Sen studied in Shailendra Sircar Vidyalaya, and then Presidency College, in Kolkata before going to IIT Kanpur in 1976. He got his doctorate from State University of New York, Stonybrook and then worked at Fermilab and Stanford before returning to India.
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