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Ganesan Srinivasan named RAS honorary fellow
Srinivasan was honored for outstanding scientific work in the field of the evolution of neutron stars
Professor Ganesan Srinivasan / Image Indian Academy of Sciences
The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) has bestowed former professor of the Raman Research Institute Ganesan Srinivasan with an honorary fellowship.
Srinivasan has been recognized for his outstanding scientific work in the field of the evolution of neutron stars and for making great contributions to astronomy education in India.
He has worked for most of his career in India, having completed his PhD in Chicago and served in multiple roles across Europe, including at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, according to a press release by RAS.
The professor started out as a condensed matter physicist, later switching to astrophysics.
His research in astrophysics covered binary pulsars, supernova remnants, recycled pulsars, and millisecond pulsars, having introduced the concept of ‘spin-up’ lines in radio pulsars in 1980 and explaining the origin of the first-millisecond pulsar in 1982.
Many of the predictions he made in the 1980s have been verified since 2000 after the XMM-Newton mission was launched.
Srinivasan has made broad contributions to astronomy education, including writing multiple textbooks and producing a substantial series of introduction to astrophysics video lectures on YouTube.
Additionally, he has contributed to the community by serving on the council for the Indian Academy of Sciences and on the board for IUCAA, NCRA, and Nainital Observatory.
A former president of the Astronomical Society of India, he served on the division of space and high energy astrophysics at the International Astronomical Union (IAU).
Born in the Madurai District of Tamil Nadu, he graduated from Nagpur University with a BSc degree and acquired an MSc from Madras University. He went on to achieve his doctorate degree in 1970 from the University of Chicago.
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