Bkash sinha biography for kids

Bikash Sinha, influential Indian scientist and pioneer in quark–gluon plasma and the early Universe, passed away on 11 August at the age of 78. As one of the ALICE experiment’s early visionaries and architects, his impact on heavy-ion physics is unmistakable.

Bikash Sinha was born on 16 June 1945 in Kandi, Murshidabad, in the state of West Bengal, India.

After graduating from Presidency College, Kolkata, with a degree in physics in 1964, he went on to obtain the Tripos in Natural Sciences from King’s College, Cambridge, in 1967 and then a PhD in nuclear physics from the University of London in 1970. He returned to India at the invitation of nuclear physicist Raja Ramanna and joined the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) in 1976.

In the early 1980s, he started working in high-energy physics, particularly in relativistic heavy-ion collisions and the formation of quark–gluon plasma. He was appointed Director of the Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre