Maithili Sharan (born 4 January 1953) is an Indian

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who specialises in

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, Air Pollution and atmospheric boundary layer. He was awarded in 1992 the

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (SSB) is a science award in India given annually by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for notable and outstanding research, Applied science, applied or Fundamenta ...

, the highest science award in

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, in the mathematical sciences category. Maithili Sharan's notable findings relate to development of mathematical models for the transport of gases in pulmonary and systemic circulations including brain and dispersion of air pollutants in low wind conditions, numerical simulation of Bhopal gas leak, and weak wind nocturnal boundary layer.

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Indian National Science Academy databaseMaithili Sharan
1953 births Living people 20th-century Indian mathematicians IIT Delhi alumni Academic staff of IIT Delhi University of Rajasthan alumni Scientists from Rajasthan Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Mathematical Science {{India-scientist-stub