INDIANS
EXTRAORDINARY
FIRST PART
HERE, I WILL COVER THE OUTSTANDING INDIAN SCIENTISTS,
CHRONOLOGICALLY MOVING BACKWARD.
1.0 NEENA
GUPTA.
In 2014, she was awarded the Young Scientists Award by the
Indian National Science Academy (INSA) for solving the Zariski Cancellation
Problem, posed by Oscar Zariski, one of the most eminent founders of modern
algebraic geometry.
“One of the best works in algebraic geometry in recent years done anywhere,”
was INSA’s remark on Gupta’s solution. In 2021, she was awarded the Ramanujan
Prize for young mathematicians for her series of outstanding work in affine
algebraic geometry and commutative algebra, particularly for the Zariski
Cancellation Problem, that had remained unsolved for 60 years until 2014 when
Gupta cracked it.
With this, she became the third woman and the fourth Indian to win an award
given to mathematicians under 45 who have conducted outstanding research in a
developing country.
“Her research shows impressive algebraic skill and inventiveness,” said the
Ramanujan Committee’s citation.
For a problem that remains open for that long, it takes some amount of
perseverance and self-belief to attempt it, according to Amartya Kumar Dutta,
Gupta’s professor, guide, and fellow faculty member at ISI. “She is a problem-solver,
who possesses originality, and is highly receptive,” says Dutta, who has known
Gupta for 15 years. “Her growth has been phenomenal and she will continue with
her stellar performance for as long as she can.”
Her love for math, Gupta says, came naturally to her as her parents were very
good at it. “Although I liked all subjects, except literature which I was weak
in, maths had a certain charm that was hard to describe and then it became a
way of life for me,” she says. Neena Gupta is an assistant professor at the
Statistics and Mathematics Unit of ISI Kolkata
She is considered as a prodigy mathematics because of her outstanding contribution in
the field of mathematics. The mathematical problem that Neena solved is called Zariski
Cancellation Conjecture which remained unsolved for over 70 years. INSA
described her solution as, “one of the best works in Algebraic Geometry in
recent years done anywhere.”
The particular paper on solving the Zariski cancellation
conjecture can be accessed here : https://arxiv.org/pdf/1208.0483.pdf
The paper
is uploaded in the above link.
I have appended a link on her which can be further referred
to know more about her.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Neena_Gupta2
2.0 Dr Thomas Pucadyil.
Another scientist
that I want to mention here in this thread is about Dr Thomas Pucadyil. He is a
scientist at Indian Institute of Science Education and
Research, Pune (IISER-P) . Dr. Pucadyil is the only Indian among 41
scientists from 16 countries, who has been chosen as an international research
scholar by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation. The International
competition for 2017 was held in March last year and was open to all
early-career scientists who held a full-time position at a research institute
and who were in charge of their own laboratories for a period of less than
seven years. These 41 scientists were chosen from among 1,400 candidates who
will now receive a total of $26.7 million. Each scientist will get a research
grant of $6,50,000 for a period of five years, reports The New Indian
Express.
Thomas Pucadyil who is a senior fellow in the Wellcome Trust
- Department of Biotechnology and is also an Associate Professor in Biology at
the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER).
He has received he
GRANT for his research in cell membrane fission, for a period of five years.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute , the Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Wellcome
Trust, are organisations that together fund ‘exceptional early-career’
scientists globally, to enable discoveries advancing human health and enhancing
the fundamental understanding of biology.
Followings are the google scholar and institute profile of
Dr. Pucadyil :
https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=TRdAVbkAAAAJ&hl=en
MORE REFERENCES:--
Statistics and Mathematics unit
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