Question
Name the Indian personality who has been awarded the
prestigious Shaw Prize in Astronomy for 2024.Solution
Srinivas R. Kulkarni, an Indian-origin U.S. scientist, has been awarded the prestigious Shaw Prize in Astronomy for 2024. He serves as the George Ellery Hale Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Science at Caltech. He has been awarded for his ground-breaking discoveries on millisecond pulsars, gamma-ray bursts, supernovae, and other transient astronomical phenomena.
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