Shrinivas R. (Shri) Kulkarni, George Ellery Hale Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Science at California Institute of Technology (Caltech), USA, has bagged The Shaw Prize, 2024. Kulkarni is the younger brother of well-known writer and Rajya Sabha member Sudha Murty, and hails from Karnataka. He was born in Kurundwad, near Sangli in Maharashtra and studied at Hubballi. He topped in the class, both in studies and in other school competitions, his sister Dr Sunanda Kulkarni had told ET, in a... Read this story
