Professor Govind Swarup, man behind largest GMRT, passes away at 92

Professor Govind Swarup is kwn for his exceptional contribution in field of Rio Astromy. He has been a significant personality who drove India's forward in this astromy field while setting up pillars at same time. However, genius passed away on Monday i.e. September 7, 2020, at of 92.

Rio astromy pioneer Prof Govind Swarup dies at 92

Prof Govind Swarup passed away at of 92 at  Ruby Hall Clinic in Pune on Monday. cause of death is said to be due to weakness and or health complications due to old . news was first given by Yashwant Gupta, Director of National Centre for Rio Astrophysics. NCRA shared a social media post about same as well, where y appreciated him for legacy that he left behind and his immense contributions to science.

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More about Prof Govind Swarup

rewn rio astromer Prof Swarup completed his BSc degree in year 1948 and n he pursued Masters in Physics till 1950. genius later when to Stanford University in US and completed his PhD in year 1961. In year 1987, late Govind Swarup was awarded Doctor of Science from Banaras Hindu University and Doctor of Engineering from University of Roorkee. 

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He has been a part of various prestigious organisations including CSIRO, Harvard University, Stanford University, National Physical Laboratory and more. He is man behind creating a rio astromy group called National Centre for Rio Astrophysics at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. However, he came back to India by request of Dr Homi Jehangir Bhabha to join TIFR. group later designed and created largest Rio telescope in world.

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Swarup's telescope is a massive 500-metre rio telescope. This rio telescope is located in Ooty, South India. telescope helps to track celestial rio sources, providing high-resolution angular data. This telescope, developed by Prof Swarup and his group, has me crucial contributions in fields of solar rio emission, interplanetary scintillations, pulsars, rio galaxies, quasars and cosmology.

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