Vikram Kumar is an Indian material physicist, academic and an emeritus fellow of the
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
The Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi is a public institute of technology located in New Delhi, India. It is one of the 23 IITs created to be Centres of Excellence for training, research and development in science, engineering and technolo ...
.
He is a former director of the Sold State Physics Laboratory of IIT Delhi and is known for his studies on semiconductor technology.
He has worked on ultra thin oxide MOS structures, silicon, III-V and II—VI semiconductors which is reported to have assisted in understanding their characterization. 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
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, ...
, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to physical sciences in 1992.
He is also a recipient of the ''Distinguished Materials Scientist of the Year'' award of the Materials Research Society of India.
In 2019, he inaugurated, with colleagues, the Aryabhatt Auditorium at the “Prof. Rajendra Singh (Rajju Bhaiya) Institute of Physical Sciences for Study and Research" at the Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University of Jaunpur.
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Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Physical Science
Indian scientific authors
Indian materials scientists
IIT Delhi faculty
20th-century Indian physicists
Year of birth missing (living people)
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