Yashwant Gupta (born 1 November 1962) is an Indian astrophysicist and a professor at the
National Centre for Radio Astrophysics
The National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA) (Hindi:राष्ट्रीय रेडियो खगोल भौतिकी केन्द्र) of India is a research institution in India in the field of radio astronomy is located ...
(NCRA) of the
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
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.
He is currently a Distinguished Professor and also the Centre Director at NCRA.
Known for his research on
pulsars
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and the interstellar medium, as well as development of instrumentation for radio astronomy, Gupta is a member of the
International Astronomical Union
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,
the
International Union of Radio Science
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(URSI) and also a Senior Member of the
IEEE
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. He is reported to have contributed to the construction and commissioning of the
Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope
The Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT), located near Pune, Junnar, near Narayangaon at khodad in India, is an array of thirty fully steerable parabolic radio telescopes of 45 metre diameter, observing at metre wavelengths. It is operated by t ...
(GMRT) in
Pune
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,
including the development and enhancements to the digital correlator for the GMRT.
[ ] He also led the major upgrade of GMRT that was carried out during 2013 to 2019, which has resulted in the GMRT maintaining its position as one of the leading low frequency radio observatories in the world.
[ ] For this achievement, Gupta and his team were awarded the Zubin Kembhavi Award in 2019
[ ] by the
Astronomical Society of India.
His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles
and
Google Scholar
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, 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
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in December 2015 was one among them.
The
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
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, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology
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, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to physical sciences in 2007.
Selected bibliography
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See also
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Electromagnetic radiation
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Neutron star
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Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Physical Science
Scientists from Maharashtra
Indian scientific authors
1962 births
Living people
Fellows of the Indian Academy of Sciences
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research faculty
Indian astrophysicists
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