BENGALURU: With the discovery of gravitational wave, ecstasy touched the heart of every science lover and yes there is Indian element in it. When the scientific world is gripped in euphoria, Indians have legitimate reasons to rejoice and feel proud in approval for legendary Einstein’s hypothesis. Not only Indian Scientists have embossed their hallmark of ingenuity on history of scientific revelations by playing vital role in discovery of the most talked about wave but also they have made us proud.
Indian scientists, more than 60 in all have played a major role in major scientific discovery of 21st century, reports FirstPost
Sanjeev Dhurandhar
Sanjeev Dhurandhar, professor emeritus at the Inter-University Centre of Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) in Pune, is one of the 1,000 key scientists involved in discovery of the gravitational waves. The Pune born Scientist was brought into IUCAA by the founder Jayant Naralikar, to develop signal detection techniques. In 1980’s when the community of scientists had belief in electromagnetic waves, Dhurandhar vehemently suggested existence of gravitational waves, which could be capable to detect black holes, another complex topic in astronomy. The Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) was founded in 1997 and Dhurandhar led various groups to research theory of gravitational waves on the data provided by the observatories.
Other Contributors
The Indian Initiative in Gravitational-Wave Observatories (IndIGO) was set up in 2009 with over 60 scientists from various institutions of the country like – CMI Chennai, ICTS –TIFR Bengaluru, IISER Kolkata, IISER – Trivandrum, IIT Gandhingar , IPR Gandhinagar, IUCAA Pune, RRCAT Indore and TIFR Mumbai. Major tasks carried out by these groups were to study the dynamics of the black hole, to decipher the LIGO response to signals, and to analyse the energy radiated at the time of the collision of the black holes. Bala Iyer – a scientist at the Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru, led a group in collaboration with French scientists, to calculate the gravitational waves emitted by the black holes and neutron stars.
PM Modi’s reaction
As always our Prime Minister doesn’t miss out a chance to congratulate as he expressed his joy on the social media platform, Twitter, for India’s contribution in this discovery.
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