Vijay Balakrishna Shenoy is a Professor of Physics at the

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. He was awarded the

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize 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 or fundamental, in biology, ...

for science and technology, the highest science award in India, for the year 2013 in the physical sciences category.

Biography

Vijay B. Shenoy obtained his B.Tech. (Mechanical) from IIT, Madras in 1992 and his M.S. from Georgia Tech. in 1994. He received his

Doctorate A doctorate (from Latin ''docere'', "to teach"), doctor's degree (from Latin ''doctor'', "teacher"), or doctoral degree is an academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism ''li ...

degree from Brown University in 1998. For a short period he took Adjunct Assistant Professorship in Brown University in 1999. Later he joined the faculty of

IIT, Kanpur The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) Hindi: भारतीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान कानपुर) is a public institute of technology located in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was ...

from 1999 to 2002. In 2002, he joined

. Currently he works on theoretical condensed matter physics with focus on strongly interacting/correlated fermionic systems.

Research

His work on the Rashbon is said to have opened a new range of possibilities and new directions for physics.

External links

Interview with Vijay Balakrishna Shenoy
When future can be a reality

References

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