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Ashoke Sen

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Ashoke Sen is an Indian theoretical physicist whose main area of work is string theory. He has held positions including ICTS-Infosys Madhava Chair Professor at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences in Bangalore, distinguished professor at the Harish-Chandra Research Institute in Prayagraj, and visiting posts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Korea Institute for Advanced Study. He was among the first recipients of the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, awarded for opening the path to the realization that all string theories are different limits of the same underlying theory.

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Birth Year
1956 1
Nationality
India 1
Birthplace
Kolkata, India 1
Field
Field (category)
Physics 1
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1. Ashoke Sen (Wikidata)
  • P27 (country of citizenship): India
    Q668
  • P19 (place of birth): Kolkata, India
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Ashoke Sen (Wikipedia)
  • Works In: Physics, Infobox, fields
    Infobox fields: Physics
  • Member Of: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Infobox, workplaces
    Infobox workplaces: Fermilab; Stanford Linear Accelerator Center; Tata Institute of Fundamental Research; Harish-Chandra Research Institute; Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal
  • Member Of: Fermilab, Infobox, workplaces
    Infobox workplaces: Fermilab; Stanford Linear Accelerator Center; Tata Institute of Fundamental Research; Harish-Chandra Research Institute; Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal
  • Works In: Physics, Lead sentence
    Ashoke Sen FRS (; born 1956) is an Indian theoretical physicist and ICTS-Infosys Madhava Chair Professor at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), Bangalore.
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