Padma Kant Shukla

Padma Kant Shukla (born July 7, 1950 in Tulapur , Uttar Pradesh , India ; † January 26, 2013 in New Delhi ) was a German physicist of Indian origin and honorary professor at the Ruhr University in Bochum . He worked there in the field of plasma physics. Shukla is the only German so far to have been appointed to the "physics class" of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences . This advises the Nobel Prize Committee and makes candidate proposals in the field of physics.

The Bochum-based plasma physicist received three international awards in 2009: The Royal Society of Edinburgh named him a "Corresponding Fellow", the Technical University of Lisbon awarded him an honorary doctorate , and the Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology (IROST, Tehran) named him the holder of the 22. Khwarizmi International Award.

He has received around 20 international awards and honors in the past four years alone. Particularly outstanding is the Nicholson Medal, which Shukla received in 2005 as the first Western European ever. In 2001 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society .

Fonts

• with Abdullah Al Mamun: Introduction to Dusty Plasma Physics. Institute of Physics Pub., Bristol 2002, ISBN 0-7503-0653-X

Web links

• Private homepage. Archived from the original on March 23, 2014 . 
• High distinction for Bochum physicist Prof. Padma Kant Shukla receives Nicholson Medal. RUB press office, October 6, 2005. 
• Homepage Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Padma Kant Shukla. Ruhr University Bochum, archived from the original on January 13, 2011 . 
• Entry in the Bochum university bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fellow, honorary doctorate and award winner: International awards for RUB plasma physicists. In: idw-online.de. Ruhr University Bochum Press Office, March 18, 2009 .