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Prof. Shrinivas Kulkarni, born in Kurundwad, Maharashtra, and educated at IIT Delhi, is an astronomer at Caltech. As a student he co-discovered the first millisecond pulsar; later he helped show that gamma-ray bursts come from distant galaxies and led sky surveys that find new kinds of exploding stars.
Key contributions
- Co-discovered the first millisecond pulsar (1982)
- Showed that gamma-ray bursts are extragalactic (1997)
- Fellow of the Royal Society (2001); Dan David Prize (2017); Shaw Prize in Astronomy (2024)