Latest Indians to win FRS
Royal Society elects new Fellows and Foreign members
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On 14 May 1998 The Royal Society elected forty new Fellows and five
new Foreign Members, listed below. Election to the Fellowship is
recognised world-wide as a sign of the highest regard in science.
Details of the scientific work for which they have been elected are
attached.
FELLOWS
Harshad Kumar Dharamshi Hansraj Bhadeshia. Reader in Physical
Metallurgy in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy,
Cambridge University.
Raghunath Anant Mashelkar. Director General of the Council of
Scientific and Industrial Research, India.
Ashoke Sen. Professor in the Mehta Research Institute of Mathematics
and Mathematical Physics, Allahbad, India.
Srinivasa Varadhan. Professor of Mathematics in the Courant Institute,
New York University, USA.
NOTES TO EDITORS
1. The Royal Society is an independent academy promoting the natural
and applied sciences. Founded in 1660, The Society has a dual role, as
the UK academy of science, acting nationally or internationally, and
as the provider of a broad range of services for the scientific
community. It responds to individual demand with selection by merit,
not by field. The Society's objectives are:
* To promote and recognise excellence in science and its
application.
* To provide independent, authoritative advice, notably to UK
Government, on science and engineering-related matters and to
inform public debate, through studies, submissions and reports.
* To support and encourage research and its application, through
research fellowships and grants to individual scientists, and to
disseminate the results of research through meetings, lectures,
exhibitions and publications.
2. Fellows are elected for their contributions to science, both in
fundamental research resulting in greater understanding, and also in
leading and directing scientific and technological progress in
industry and research establishments. A maximum of forty new Fellows
may be elected annually.
3. Up to six Foreign Members are elected annually, and are selected
from among persons of the greatest eminence, for their scientific
discoveries and attainments, but who are not eligible for election as
Fellows of the Society (owing to citizenship and residency
restrictions).
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FELLOWS ELECTED ON 14 MAY 1998
Dr Harshad Kumar Dharamshi Hansraj Bhadeshia. Reader in Physical
Metallurgy in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy,
Cambridge University. Harshad Bhadeshia has undertaken distinguished
work on the theory of solid state phase transformations, in particular
the prediction and verification of microstructural development in
multi-component steels. He has developed and applied thermodynamic
theory to show that different modes of transformation have measurable
influences on the final microstructure. He has used this theory to
design novel steels, resistant to wear and impact deformation, which
in turn has helped in the large scale manufacture of new rail steels.
Dr Raghunath Anant Mashelkar. Director General of the Council of
Scientific and Industrial Research, India. Raghunath Mashelkar has
made outstanding original contributions to polymer engineering,
notably in the modelling of polymerisation reactors, diffusion in
polymeric media, transport studies in swelling polymers as well as
non-Newtonian flows. In particular his engineering analysis of
secondary flows and particle motion/deformation are considered both
innovative and pragmatically important.
Ashoke Sen. Professor in the Mehta Research Institute of Mathematics
and Mathematical Physics, Allahbad, India.
Ashoke Sen is widely known for his brilliant contributions to
superstring theory. He is a leading figure particularly in the
unravelling the structure of supersymmetric quantum field theory and
application of string theory methods to determine quantum properties
of black holes as well as the structure of Yang-Mills quantum field
theory.
Professor Srinivasa Varadhan. Professor of Mathematics in the Courant
Institute of Mathematics, New York University. Srinivasa Varadhan has
been a central figure in the development of probability theory during
the last thirty years. His work with Stroock on the Martingale
formulation for Markov Processes has changed fundamentally how they
are viewed which has proved essential for the study of Markov
processes with complex state spaces. In his recent work on
Hydrodynamic scaling he has since answered some of the difficult
questions concerning the approach to equilibrium of large systems with
slow modes.
