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Bikash Sinha is an Indian physicist, active in the fields of nuclear physics and high energy physics. Bikash Sinha was the director of the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics and Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre〔(VECC and SINP )〕 and the chairman of the Board of Governors of the National Institute of Technology, Durgapur in June 2005. He retired from service as the director of Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre and the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics in June 2009. Presently he is the Homi Bhabha Chair Professor of the Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre. He is also a member of scientific advisory board to the Prime Minister of India. He received Padma Shri in 2001 and Padma Bhushan in 2010. He is the cousin of late Atish Chandra Sinha and nephew of Bimal Chandra Sinha, Zamindar of Kandi in Murshidabad and Land Reforms Minister of West Bengal under the Chief Ministership of Bidhan Chandra Ray. ==Biography== Bikash Sinha was born in 1945. He had his schooling at the Scottish Church Collegiate School, and later studied at Presidency College, Calcutta. He graduated with a first class in physics from the Presidency College, Calcutta, then affiliated with the University of Calcutta. He obtained his Tripos from Cambridge University in natural science in 1967 and then completed his Ph.D. from London University in 1970. He was awarded a D.Sc. from London University in 1981. Sinha lived in England for about 12 years, teaching and researching in the Rutherford High Energy Physics Laboratory and King's College, London. Internationally known, he has travelled extensively and is known to most of the peers of physics for Europe, USA, former USSR, Japan, China and Latin America. He has published more than 250 papers and delivered talks in international scientific conferences extensively. The pioneering work on Quark Gluon Plasma is already well recognized internationally. A series of invited talks in international conferences and membership of the significant advisory committees substantiate that reputation and credibility. Sinha is the recipient of S.N. Bose Birth Centenary Award of the Indian Science Congress Association in 1994. Sinha joined Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in 1976 after coming back from England and was Director of Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre. He is a Fellow of the prestigious Indian National Science Academy as recognition of his outstanding research in Physics (1989). He is also a Fellow of National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad (1993) and the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore (2004). Currently,he is the chairman of board of governors, National Institute of Technology, Durgapur (NIT DURGAPUR). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bikash Sinha」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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