Renowned nuclear physicist Bikash Sinha has passed away at the age of 78, was suffering from old age-related ailments. A recipient of Padma Shri in 2001 and Padma Bhusan in 2010, he was the former director of the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics and Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre.
Sinha specialized in nuclear physics, high energy physics, Quark Gluon Plasma and early universe cosmology.
He led the Indian team for the first time to participate in the experiments at the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva.
Sinha had lived in England for around 12 years and after coming back to India he joined the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in 1976. In 1987 he was appointed the director of the Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre. He held the concurrent charge as director of the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics till 2009.
