This Kolkata Scientist Who Cycled To Work Won a $3 Million Prize for His Physics Breakthrough

Born in Kolkata in 1956, Professor Ashoke Sen grew up with an innate fascination for complex mathematical ideas. From his early schooling at Sailendra Sircar Vidyalaya and undergraduate days at Presidency College, Kolkata, equations and theoretical puzzles held more allure than ease of life.  He went on to complete his master’s at IIT Kanpur and pursued doctoral research at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, later holding post‑doctoral positions at Fermilab and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Centre. Despite lucrative offers abroad, Sen chose to return to India. He joined the ...