Mustansir Barma Explained

Mustansir Barma
Office:	Professor Emeritus at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Hyderabad DAE-Homi Bhabha Chair Professor
Term Start:	2018
Successor:	Sandip P Trivedi
Birth Date:	27 December 1950
Birth Place:	Mumbai, India
Alma Mater:	Campion School, Mumbai, St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Profession:	Professor, Author, Scientist

Mustansir Barma is an Indian scientist specializing in statistical physics. He was former director of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research^[1] from 2007 to 2014.

Early life

Mustansir Barma was born in Mumbai to a Dawoodi Bohra family.^[2]

Awards and honours

• Young Scientist Award of the Indian National Science Academy (1980).
• Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences (1983 – 86).
• Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for the Physical Sciences awarded by the CSIR (1995).
• Honorary faculty member, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore (1998 – 2001).
• DAE Raja Ramanna Prize Lecture in Physics (2004).
• S.N. Bose Birth Centenary Award of the Indian Science Congress (2007).
• J.C. Bose Fellowship of the Department of Science and Technology (2007).
• Seventh Abdus Salam Memorial Lecture, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi (2009).
• R.S. Goyal Prize for Physics (2006), awarded in 2010.
• Padma Shri Award (2013)^[3]

Notes and References

1. Web site: barma . theory.tifr.res.in.
2. Web site: recording . pad.ma.
3. http://zeenews.india.com/news/nation/padma-awards-2013-full-list_825066.html Padma Awards 2013: Full list