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| Born | (1948-03-12)12 March 1948 (age 77) Delhi, India |
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| Known for | Studies onRadio galaxies andQuasars |
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Gopal Krishna (born 12 March 1948) is an Indian radio astronomer and a senior professor at theNational Centre for Radio Astrophysics. Known for his studies onRadio galaxies andquasars, Krishna is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies viz.Indian Academy of Sciences,National Academy of Sciences, India andIndian National Science Academy. TheCouncil of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him theShanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to physical sciences in 1993.[1][note 1]
Born on 12 March 1948 in theNational Capital Region of Delhi, Gopal Krishna completed his graduate studies atAgra University in 1966 before joining BARC Training School atBhabha Atomic Research Centre.[2] After a short stint, he moved toTata Institute of Fundamental Research at their newly established Radio Astronomy Group in 1967 as a research associate. It was during this time, he was mentored byGovind Swarup and his research with the help of theOoty Radio Telescope earned him a PhD from theUniversity of Mumbai in 1977. Subsequently, he moved to theMax Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy for his post-doctoral work as anAlexander von Humboldt fellow and on his return in 1980, he resumed his career with Tata Institute Fundamental Research.[2] In 2002, he moved to Pune to joinNational Centre for Radio Astrophysics where he was involved in the commissioning ofGiant Metrewave Radio Telescope and holds the position of a senior professor there.[3]
Gopal Krishna's research was focused on radio galaxies and quasars from observational and theoretical perspectives.[2] He is known to have developed a relativistic-beam model which has reported use in ascertaining the luminosity of galaxies and quasars as well as in studying the cosmological evolution of linear sizes.[4] Besides, he is also credited with the discovery of galaxies and clusters at highredshifts.[5] His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles[6][note 2] and the online article repository of the Indian Academy of Sciences has listed 102 of them.[7] He has also guided a number of doctoral scholars in their research. Towards the latter part of his career, he served as a visiting faculty at several institutions includingSpace Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore,European Southern Observatory, Santiago andMax Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy.[2] He sat in the International Advisory Committee of theInternational Year of Astronomy organized by theInternational Astronomical Union in 2009 and chaired the closing session of itsUNESCO inaugural ceremony held in Paris in January 2009.[2] He has also lectured worldwide and the lecture onUnderstanding X-shaped radio galaxies presented on 21 September 2010 at theUniversity of Sheffield was one among them.[8]
The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him theShanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards in 1993.[9] The same year, he was elected as a fellow by theNational Academy of Sciences, India.[10] This was followed by the elected fellowships from theIndian Academy of Sciences in 1993[11] and theIndian National Science Academy 2010.[12]
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