Bikash Sinha
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- Calcutta University (BSc)
- Cambridge University (BA)
- London University (MA, PhD, DSc)
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| Born | 16 June 1945 Kandi, Murshidabad district, Bengal Province, British India |
| Died | 11 August 2023 (aged 78) Minto Park, Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
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| Fields | Physics |
Bikash Sinha (16 June 1945 – 11 August 2023) was an Indian physicist who was active in the fields of nuclear physics and high energy physics. Sinha was the director of the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics and Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre and the chairman of the Board of Governors of the National Institute of Technology, Durgapur in June 2005. He was also a member of scientific advisory board to the Prime Minister of India.
Bikash Sinha was born on 16 June 1945 in Kandi, Murshidabad.[1][2][3][4] He studied physics for his bachelor's degree at Presidency College, Kolkata from 1961 to 1964, graduating with high honors.[5] He then proceeded to King's College, Cambridge, for higher studies in his subject.[6]
Career
Sinha joined Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai in 1976 after returning from England and was Director of Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre,[7][8][9] where he was the Homi Bhabha Chair Professor.[10] He retired from service as the director of Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre and the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics in June 2009.[11]
Sinha specialised in nuclear physics, high energy physics, quark–gluon plasma and early universe cosmology.[10] He is credited with helping India achieve recognition in the global science community. He contributed to making India join the search for the Higgs boson at CERN, helping the search that lasted from 2008 to 2012, which eventually culminated with the discovery of the Higgs boson.[11] At CERN he also worked in creating and researching quark–gluon plasma alongside searching for the Higgs Boson.[12] Sinha additionally led his team to do experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in the US and the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research in Germany.[10]
Sinha was the chairman of board of governors, National Institute of Technology, Durgapur (NIT Duragpur).[13] He was nominated as a member of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister from 27 January 2005. He has been re-elected for the second time as a member of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister from December 2009.[14]
Sinha died on 11 August 2023, at the age of 78, in Kolkata.[15][16][17]
