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Govind Swarup, the Glossary

Govind Swarup (March 23, 1929 – September 7, 2020) was a pioneer in radio astronomy.^[1]

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People from Moradabad district
Radio astronomers

Arecibo Telescope

The Arecibo Telescope was a spherical reflector radio telescope built into a natural sinkhole at the Arecibo Observatory located near Arecibo, Puerto Rico.

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Astronomical Society of India

The Astronomical Society of India (ASI) is an Indian society of professional astronomers and other professionals from related disciplines.

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Astronomy

Astronomy is a natural science that studies celestial objects and the phenomena that occur in the cosmos.

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Astrophysics

Astrophysics is a science that employs the methods and principles of physics and chemistry in the study of astronomical objects and phenomena.

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Banaras Hindu University (BHU) (IAST: kāśī hindū viśvavidyālaya IPA: /kaːʃiː hɪnd̪uː ʋɪʃwəʋid̪jaːləj/) is a collegiate, central, and research university located in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, and founded in 1916. The university incorporated the Central Hindu College, founded by Indian Home Rule-leaguer and Theosophist, Annie Besant in 1898.

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Bernard Mills

Bernard Yarnton Mills AC, FRS, FAA, DSc(Eng) (8 August 1920 – 25 April 2011) was an Australian engineer and a pioneer of radio astronomy in Australia, responsible for the design and implementation of the Mills Cross Telescope and the Molonglo Cross Telescope. Govind Swarup and Bernard Mills are radio astronomers.

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Big Bang

The Big Bang is a physical theory that describes how the universe expanded from an initial state of high density and temperature.

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Cold dark matter

In cosmology and physics, cold dark matter (CDM) is a hypothetical type of dark matter.

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Coronal mass ejection

A coronal mass ejection (CME) is a significant ejection of magnetic field and accompanying plasma mass from the Sun's corona into the heliosphere.

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Cosmology

Cosmology is a branch of physics and metaphysics dealing with the nature of the universe, the cosmos.

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Council of Scientific and Industrial Research

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR; IAST: vaigyanik tathā audyogik anusandhāna pariṣada) is a research and development (R&D) organisation in India to promote scientific, industrial and economic growth.

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CSIRO

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is an Australian Government agency responsible for scientific research.

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Cygnus A

Cygnus A (3C 405) is a radio galaxy, one of the strongest radio sources in the sky.

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Dark matter

In astronomy, dark matter is a hypothetical form of matter that appears not to interact with light or the electromagnetic field.

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Electron paramagnetic resonance

Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) or electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy is a method for studying materials that have unpaired electrons.

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Fellow of the Royal Society

Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the Fellows of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science, and medical science".

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Fort Davis, Texas

Fort Davis is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Jeff Davis County, Texas, United States.

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Galactic Center

The Galactic Center is the barycenter of the Milky Way and a corresponding point on the rotational axis of the galaxy.

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Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope

The Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT), located near Narayangaon, Pune in India, is an array of thirty fully steerable parabolic radio telescopes of 45 metre diameter, observing at metre wavelengths.

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Gopal Krishna (astronomer)

Gopal Krishna (born 12 March 1948) is an Indian radio astronomer and a senior professor at the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics. Govind Swarup and Gopal Krishna (astronomer) are radio astronomers.

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Harvard College Observatory

The Harvard College Observatory (HCO) is an institution managing a complex of buildings and multiple instruments used for astronomical research by the Harvard University Department of Astronomy.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Homi J. Bhabha

Homi Jehangir Bhabha, FNI, FASc, FRS(30 October 1909 to 24 January 1966) was an Indian nuclear physicist who is widely credited as the "father of the Indian nuclear programme".

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Hot dark matter

Hot dark matter (HDM) is a theoretical form of dark matter which consists of particles that travel with ultrarelativistic velocities.

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Hour angle

In astronomy and celestial navigation, the hour angle is the dihedral angle between the meridian plane (containing Earth's axis and the zenith) and the hour circle (containing Earth's axis and a given point of interest).

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IIT Roorkee

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (abbreviated IIT Roorkee) is a technical university located in Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India.

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Indian Academy of Sciences

The Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore was founded by Indian Physicist and Nobel Laureate C. V. Raman, and was registered as a society on 27 April 1934.

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Indian National Science Academy

The Indian National Science Academy (INSA) is a national academy in New Delhi for Indian scientists in all branches of science and technology.

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Indian Physical Society

The Indian Physical Society is a professional society of physicists in India.

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Indian Science Congress Association

Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA) is a premier scientific organisation of India with headquarters at Kolkata, West Bengal.

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) professional association for electronics engineering, electrical engineering, and other related disciplines.

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International Astronomical Union

The International Astronomical Union (IAU; Union astronomique internationale, UAI) is an international non-governmental organization (INGO) with the objective of advancing astronomy in all aspects, including promoting astronomical research, outreach, education, and development through global cooperation.

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International Union of Radio Science

The International Union of Radio Science (abbreviated URSI, after its French name, Union radio-scientifique internationale) is one of 26 international scientific unions affiliated to the International Council for Science (ICSU).

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Interplanetary scintillation

In astronomy, interplanetary scintillation refers to random fluctuations in the intensity of radio waves of celestial origin, on the timescale of a few seconds.

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Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship

The Jawaharlal Nehru Trust Scholarship U.K. was founded by Admiral Lord Mountbatten of Burma in 1966 as a tribute to the India's first Prime Minister – Jawaharlal Nehru – after his death in 1964.

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John Gatenby Bolton

John Gatenby Bolton (5 June 1922 – 6 July 1993) was a British-Australian astronomer who was fundamental to the development of radio astronomy. Govind Swarup and John Gatenby Bolton are radio astronomers.

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Joseph L. Pawsey

Joseph Lade Pawsey (14 May 1908 – 30 November 1962) was an Australian scientist, radiophysicist and radio astronomer. Govind Swarup and Joseph L. Pawsey are radio astronomers.

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K. S. Krishnan

Sir Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan, (4 December 1898 – 14 June 1961) was an Indian physicist.

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Kalyan Airstrip

Kalyan Airstrip was located at Nevali village, south of Kalyan railway station and north of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport.

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Khodad

Khodad is a town in the Pune district of Maharashtra state, India.

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Khwarizmi International Award

The Khwarizmi International Award is a research award given annually by the President of Iran.

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List of TWAS Prize recipients

This is a list of recipients of the TWAS Prize, awarded annually by The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). Govind Swarup and list of TWAS Prize recipients are TWAS laureates.

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Milky Way

The Milky Way is the galaxy that includes the Solar System, with the name describing the galaxy's appearance from Earth: a hazy band of light seen in the night sky formed from stars that cannot be individually distinguished by the naked eye.

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Moradabad district

Moradabad district is one of the districts of Uttar Pradesh, India.

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National Academy of Sciences, India

The National Academy of Sciences, India, established in 1930, is the oldest science academy in India.

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National Centre for Radio Astrophysics

The National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA; Hindi: राष्ट्रीय रेडियो खगोल भौतिकी केन्द्र) is a research institution in India in the field of radio astronomy is located in the Pune University Campus (just beside IUCAA), is part of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India.

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National Physical Laboratory of India

The CSIR- National Physical Laboratory of India, situated in New Delhi, is the measurement standards laboratory of India.

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Occultation

An occultation is an event that occurs when one object is hidden from the observer by another object that passes between them.

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Ooty

Ooty (officially Udhagamandalam, anglicized: Ootacamund, abbreviated as Udhagai) is a town and municipality in the Nilgiris district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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Ooty Radio Telescope

The Ooty Radio Telescope (ORT) is located in Muthorai near Ooty, in South Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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Padma Shri

The Padma Shri (IAST: padma śrī), also spelled Padma Shree, is the fourth-highest civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan.

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Pandit Ravishankar Shukla University

Pandit Ravishankar Shukla University is an institution of higher education located in Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India.

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Presidencies and provinces of British India

The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent.

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Pulsar

A pulsar (from pulsating radio source) is a highly magnetized rotating neutron star that emits beams of electromagnetic radiation out of its magnetic poles.

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Pune

Pune, previously spelled in English as Poona (the official name until 1978), is a city in Maharashtra state in the Deccan plateau in Western India.

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Quasar

A quasar is an extremely luminous active galactic nucleus (AGN).

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Radio astronomy

Radio astronomy is a subfield of astronomy that studies celestial objects at radio frequencies.

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Radio galaxy

A radio galaxy is a galaxy with giant regions of radio emission extending well beyond its visible structure.

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Research and development

Research and development (R&D or R+D; also known in Europe as research and technological development or RTD) is the set of innovative activities undertaken by corporations or governments in developing new services or products and carrier science computer marketplace e-commerce, copy center and service maintenance troubleshooting software, hardware improving existing ones.

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Ronald N. Bracewell

Ronald Newbold Bracewell AO (22 July 1921 – 12 August 2007) was the Lewis M. Terman Professor of Electrical Engineering of the Space, Telecommunications, and Radioscience Laboratory at Stanford University.

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Royal Astronomical Society

The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) is a learned society and charity that encourages and promotes the study of astronomy, solar-system science, geophysics and closely related branches of science.

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Royal Society

The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences.

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Sagittarius A*

Sagittarius A*, abbreviated as Sgr A*, is the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center of the Milky Way.

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Savitribai Phule Pune University

Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU), formerly the University of Pune, is a public state university located in the city of Pune, India.

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Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology

The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (SSB) is a science award in India given annually by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for notable and outstanding research, applied or fundamental, in biology, chemistry, environmental science, engineering, mathematics, medicine, and physics. Govind Swarup and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology are recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Engineering Science.

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Solar radio emission

Solar radio emission refers to radio waves that are naturally produced by the Sun, primarily from the lower and upper layers of the atmosphere called the chromosphere and corona, respectively.

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Solar wind

The solar wind is a stream of charged particles released from the Sun's outermost atmospheric layer, the corona.

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Stanford University

Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) is a private research university in Stanford, California.

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Sunspot

Sunspots are temporary spots on the Sun's surface that are darker than the surrounding area.

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Sydney

Sydney is the capital city of the state of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia.

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Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) is an Indian Research Institute under the Department of Atomic Energy of the Government of India.

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Thakurdwara

Thakurdwara is a town in Moradabad district in the indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

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The World Academy of Sciences

The World Academy of Sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries (TWAS) is a merit-based science academy established for developing countries, uniting more than 1,400 scientists in some 100 countries.

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United Provinces of Agra and Oudh

The United Provinces of Agra and Oudh was a province of India under the British Raj, which existed from 22 March 1902 to 1937; the official name was shortened by the Government of India Act 1935 to United Provinces (UP), by which the province had been commonly known, and by which name it was also a province of independent India until 1950.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Govind_Swarup

Also known as Govind Swaroop.

, Padma Shri, Pandit Ravishankar Shukla University, Presidencies and provinces of British India, Pulsar, Pune, Quasar, Radio astronomy, Radio galaxy, Research and development, Ronald N. Bracewell, Royal Astronomical Society, Royal Society, Sagittarius A*, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, Solar radio emission, Solar wind, Stanford University, Sunspot, Sydney, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Thakurdwara, The World Academy of Sciences, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, Universe, University of Allahabad, University of Calcutta, Uttar Pradesh, Venus, Very Large Array, Vijay Kumar Kapahi, Wilbur Norman Christiansen.

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People from Moradabad district

Radio astronomers

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