Yashwant Gupta


Yashwant Gupta is an Indian astrophysicist and a professor at the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. Known for his research on pulsars, Gupta is a member of the International Astronomical Union. He is reported to have contributed to the conceptualization and commissioning of the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope in Pune. His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles and Google Scholar, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 165 of them. He has also delivered several plenary speeches or keynote addresses and the speech on The upgraded GMRT : Current Status and Future Prospects at the University of California, Berkeley in December 2015 was one among them. 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 2007.

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