Today (November 26, 1926) is the birthday of Yash Pal, the recipient of the Padma Bhushan Award for his research on space radiation.
Yash Pal was born on November 26,
1926, in Zhang, British India. This place is currently in Pakistan. He grew up
in Pai, a town near Kaithal in Haryana. Later, he studied at Punjab University
in Chandigarh and at the University of Massachusetts. He started his career at
the Tata Basic Research Institute in Mumbai. Later, he studied at MIT and
continued in the old place again. He has been the Director of the Space
Application Center in Ahmedabad and the Chief Adviser to the Indian Planning
Commission. Undertook studies of space rays. Since then, he has also chaired
the University Grants Committee.
He was also the Vice-Chancellor
of Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi. He was honoured with the Kalinga Award
by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization for his
contribution to the development of science. Received the Padma Bhushan Award
from the Government of India in 1976. In 2013, he received the Padma Vibhushan
award. Yash Pal is best known for his regular appearances on Doordarshan's
Turning Point broadcast, and for interpreting scientific ideas in the language
of ordinary people. He participated in advisory groups for television science
projects such as Bharat Ki Saab and answered readers' science-related questions
for the English daily The Tribune.
Pal, a colleague of the Indian
National Academy of Sciences, was appointed a Marconi Fellow in 1980 for his
work at the Space Application Center in Ahmedabad. In 2009, he received the
UNESCO Kalinga Prize for Fame in Science. In October 2011, he was awarded the
Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award for Excellence in Public Administration,
Academics and Management. He received the Indira Gandhi Prize (2000) for
popularizing science and the Magnet Saha Medal (2006) for his outstanding
contribution to science. Yash Pal, a recipient of the Padma Bhushan award,
passed away on July 24, 2017, in Noida, Uttar Pradesh at the age of 90.
Source By: Wikipedia
Information: Ramesh, Assistant
Professor of Physics, Nehru Memorial College, Puthanampatti, Trichy.
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