Satya Prakash

Satya Prakash (born 1929) is a retired Senior Professor from the Physical Research Laboratory.

He currently resides in Ahmedabad, Gujarat in India. He is most notable for his contributions towards India's first space satellite, the Aryabhata. He has been a well-known figure during the fledgling days of the PRL, and still write articles about changes in the Ionosphere. He has received the Hari Om Ashram Prerit Senior Scientist Award, and Padma Shri Awards for his work.^[1]

Prakash attended Allahabad University on a scholarship. He later attended Caltech and graduated with his PhD under Henry Victor Neher. He was in charge of the Geo Camera on the AryabhataSatellite, which analyzed the soil of the earth and helped predict where the best places to farm. Prakash is a frequent publisher of scientific studies that deal with various fields of geophysics, including studies with the Ionosphere, and the Stratosphere. His works have appeared in the American Scientific Journal and Geophysical Research Letters.

Awards

• Hari Om Ashram Prerit Senior Scientist Award- 1979
• Padma Shri- 1982

Selected publications

• The Nature of Electric Field in E-Region Close to Morning and Evening Reversals (June 1976) ^[2]
• Evidence of Two Types of Electron Density Irregularities in the Electrojet Over Thumba, India (June 1974) ^[3]
• Quantification of new production during a winter Noctiluca scintillans bloom in the Arabian Sea (April 2008)^[4]
• Role of the equatorial ionization anomaly in the development of the evening prereversal enhancement of the equatorial zonal electric field (February 2009)^[5]
• E and F Region Electric Fields Over Dip Equator (April 1979) ^[6]
• Production of electric field perturbations by gravity wave winds in the E region suitable for initiating equatorial spread F (January 1999) ^[7]
• Irregularities in the Equatorial E Region Over Thumba (April 1969-Not accepted as fact) ^[8]

References