Abhas Mitra | Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI, BARC, MUMBAI) (original) (raw)
Dr Abhas Kumar Mitra superannuated as Head, Theoretical Physics Section, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, and is currently an (Hon) Adjunct Professor in Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai. He qualified as a Senior Research Associate in Goddard Space Flight Centre, NASA, in 2004, and in 2006, worked as a visiting professor in Max Planck Institute of Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg. He has carried out research in an amazingly wide arena: Gamma Ray Astronomy, High Energy Astrophysics, Classical Mechanics, General Relativity, Cosmology and Gravitational Collapse. He pioneered theoretical research on Cosmic Gamma Ray Bursts in India since 1995. He has authored almost 120 research papers or book chapters. 2.His peer reviewed research papers have shown the century old concept of “Black Holes’’ is illusory, and the so-called astrophysical “black holes” are likely to be Ultra-magnetized, Ultra-hot Balls of Fire (MECOs) which possess strong magnetic fields vis-à-vis mathematical black holes which have no magnetic field. This prediction has been verified by several American astrophysicists and, on July 25, 2006, Center for Astrophysics, Harvard, issued a Press Release mentioning his original idea: https://www.cv.nrao.edu/tuna/past/2006/NEW\_QSO\_STRUCTURE\_FOUND.pdf
It is extremely rare in Indian Science in post independent India, that a fundamental idea developed within India has been the topic of a press release by Harvard or any Ivy-league institute. He happens to be on the Distinguished Alumni List of Mumbai University:
http://archive.mu.ac.in/alumni.html
3.He happens to be one of the most mentioned “Indian Physicist” on the web for past many years. 4. Times of India (Kolkata) described him as one of the TRAILBLAZERS in its 2015 year end annual survey:
The same year, the lifestyle magazine “The Label” declared him as the 6th of most talked about Indian Men of 2015 (no 1 being of course Sh. Narendra Modi).
http://blog.louisphilippe.com/uncategorized/the-7-most-talked-about-indian-men-in-2015/6\.
In past two years, he has emerged as the leading public speaker on Theoretical Physics in India. Most of the prestigious Science – Tech fests of India like those of IIT Bombay, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Roorkee, IIT Patna, NIIT Trichi, NIIT Warangal, VJTI Mumbai, BITs Pilani Goa, VJTI, VIT (Vellore), Anna University, SRM University, IIEST Shibpur, BITs MESRA, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad, have invited him as Chief Guest or Keynote Speaker
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