Jang Bahadur Shukla (J.B. Shukla) is an Indian

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History On ...

who specialised in

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of ecological, environmental, physiological, and engineering systems. He was awarded in 1982 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 India, in the mathematical sciences category. Apart from this, he won various other prestigious awards including the

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Award, which is the highest national award by industry in physical sciences including mathematics, in 1980, and the Distinguished Service Award in Mathematical Sciences from Vijnana Parishad of India in 1997. Shukla had proposed a new deterministic theory regarding the effect of surface roughness in

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. He has done significant work on

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dynamics, in particular peristaltic transport of

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intestine The gastrointestinal tract (GI tract, digestive tract, alimentary canal) is the tract or passageway of the digestive system that leads from the mouth to the anus. The GI tract contains all the major organs of the digestive system, in humans ...

s and on interaction of biorheological aspects of blood flow and arterial

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. He has also made contributions in the area of

population dynamics Population dynamics is the type of mathematics used to model and study the size and age composition of populations as dynamical systems. History Population dynamics has traditionally been the dominant branch of mathematical biology, which has ...

of interacting species and mathematical theory of

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s by taking into account environmental effects.

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Professor J B Shukla
Scientists from Uttar Pradesh People from Balrampur University of Lucknow alumni IIT Kanpur alumni 1937 births Living people Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Mathematical Science {{India-mathematician-stub