Banibrata Mukhopadhyay is an Indian Scientist/Astrophysicist and a professor of Physics at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, born at Kolkatta, India to Pulak Mukhopadhyay, a biologist, and Tapati Mukhopadhyay, an academician. Mukhopadhyay's mother tongue is Bengali.

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Mukhopadhyay's work with his student Upasana Das has identified a mechanism to allow significantly super-Chandrasekhar white dwarfs to exist without collapsin.g into neutron stars^{[verification needed]}, which could explain the origin of over-luminous type Ia supernovae.[1][2][3][4][5][6] The idea of super-chandrashekar White-Dwarfs was proposed by physicists in the later 20th century, and Mukhopadhyay's work on these stars has not yet been confirmed observationally. The existence of Super-Chandrasekhar white-dwarfs itself is questionable. He has also proposed a solution to the century-old problem of the origin of linear instability and subsequent turbulence and matter transport in Rayleigh-stable pure hydrodynamical shear flows, which could explain turbulence in accretion disks^{[verification needed]}, through the idea is not yet confirmed. His another work is able predict the spin of black holes and needs further observational verifications.^{[verification needed]}.[7][8][9][10]

Research interests

Mukhopadhyay's research interests include black holes, white dwarfs and neutron stars (called as compact astrophysical objects),[11][12][13][14][15][16] in general, relativistic, high energy and nuclear astrophysics; astrophysical fluid dynamics and other related/similar fluid flows; Einstein's general relativity and its possible modifications and their applications to understand enigmatic astrophysical observations; and field theory in curved spacetime including baryogenesis.^{[verification needed]}

His work on Fluid Dynamics was featured in the Indian Express newspaper.[17]

Awards and recognition

In recognition of his work, Mukhopadhyay has received the following awards:

• B. M. Birla Science Prize in Physics, 2012,[18]
• Vainu Bappu Gold Medal, 2006,[19]^{[verification needed]}

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