Prof. K R Sreenivasan
Abdus Salam Honorary Professor and Director of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy
Prof. Sreenivasan is well known for wide-ranging contributions to physics and engineering: turbulence in fluids (especially the application of fractals and multifractals), reacting flows, cryogenic helium and nonlinear dynamics. He is Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences, member of the US National Academy of Engineering, member of the US National Academy of Sciences, and of the Indian Academy of Sciences and the Indian National Science Academy, among others. He has received a number of awards and honors, including, most recently, the 2008 Nicholson Medal from the American Physical Society.