Ashoke Sen

**Ashoke Sen**
Ashoke Sen at Harvard
Born	1956
Residence	India
Nationality	Indian
Field	Physics
Institution	Fermilab Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Harish-Chandra Research Institute
Alma mater	Presidency College, Kolkata Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur State University of New York at Stony Brook
Known for	String Theory

Ashoke Sen (b. 1956) is an Indian theoretical physicist who works on string theory. He co-discovered S-duality and has proposed a successful explanation of open string tachyon condensation. He has also co-written many papers on string field theory. Sen was awarded the ICTP Prize in 1989^[1]. He is currently active at the Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI). He is married to Dr. Sumathi Rao, a condensed matter physicist at HRI.

Sen received his PhD from State University of New York at Stony Brook. During his early career, he worked as a research scientist at Fermilab and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC). Later he joined the Indian Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) before finally moving to the HRI.

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Thomson Honours Leading Indian Scientists Five people receive the "Thomson Citation Laureate Award", including physics professor Ashoke Sen of the Harish-Chandra Research Institute.
The Hindu, Sunday, January 07, 2001: Stringing together the ultimate law States that Dr. Ashoke Sen of HRI has "made several important contributions to the String Theory".