Ashok Sen,
has won the newly established fundamental physics prize with a US$ 3 million
purse instituted by the Russian entrepreneur and venture capitalist Yuri Milner
for his contribution in the field of string theory.
He works in
a modest lab in a Allahabad Research institute, since 1995. ‘One doesn’t need
any fantastic infrastructure for theoretical physics. Just a computer and an
internet connection’, he explains. He is a scientist, a teacher who enjoys the
leisurely pace of life in that scholarly city. His work is based on the Higgs
boson theory postulated by another man from Calcutta, Satyendra Bose, with
Higgs.
The good
thing about the prize is that it does not require verification and urges
physicists to take inspired leaps that may not be immediately verifiable.
‘Experimental verification of string theory is going to take some time and more
sophisticated experimental facilities,’ he says.
So let us
look carefully at how we choose our life’s work.
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