Iit Kanpur Alumnus Honoured Past Times American Physical Society

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2014 APS Leo Szilard Lectureship Award Recipient

M.V. Ramana
Princeton University

Citation:

"For outstanding contributions to promote global safety issues,
through critical analyses of nuclear weapons as well as nuclear release energy programs inward Bharat as well as associated risks inward the subcontinent, as well as efforts to promote peace as well as nuclear safety inward Southern Asia through extensive engagements as well as writings."


Background:

M.V. Ramana received his undergraduate marking inward physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur inward 1988 as well as his Ph.D. inward theoretical physics from Boston University inward 1994. He has held enquiry positions at the University of Toronto, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies inward Environment as well as Development, Bangalore, as well as taught at Boston University, Princeton University, as well as Yale University. He is currently amongst the Nuclear Futures Laboratory as well as the Program on Science as well as Global Security at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public as well as International Affairs, Princeton University. His enquiry interests bridge a wide make as well as include topics related to energy, environment, security, as well as scientific discipline as well as applied scientific discipline policy. Currently, he has been involved inward the ongoing debates surrounding the expansion of nuclear ability inward the context of nuclear disarmament as well as climate change. Ramana is the writer of The Power of Promise: Examining Nuclear Energy inward Bharat (Penguin Books, 2012) as well as co-editor of Prisoners of the Nuclear Dream (Orient Longman, 2003). He is a fellow member of the International Panel on Fissile Materials as well as the Science as well as Security Board ofthe Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. In 2003, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Selection Committee: Pushpalatha Bhat, Chair; J. Bernstein; G. West; L. Krauss

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