ASHOKE SEN

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Ashoke Sen was born in 1956. His father was professor of physics at the Scottish Church College, Calcutta. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree from Presidency College, Calcutta and his master’s degree from IIT Kanpur. He later did his doctoral work in physics at Stony Brook University in New York, USA. He then pursued his career as a theoretical physicist and made a number of major original contributions to the subject of string theory. 
He is particle physicist working from a non-descript laboratory in the Harish-Chandra Research Institute in the not-so-happening town of Allahabad in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. (Unlike many who to US and make money there and serve that country)
He recently came into limelight when he was awarded the first Fundamental Physics Prize 2012. Fundamental Physics Prize is worth $3 million (approx. 3x the Nobel Prize). The new prize was set up by the Russian internet entrepreneur, Yuri Milner - some are calling it the "Russian Nobel Prize".
In its inaugural year, it has also been awarded to eight others and Prof Sen is the only Indian to bag the award along with scientists working in the US and Russia.
Prof Sen works in an esoteric branch of physics called "string theory", which he has been refining for the last two decades.
It is a complex mathematical theory that hopes to explain almost everything we know about the matter and energy in the universe. 
And Yes, today he is one of the richest professors in the world, having been conferred the award which has prize money almost three times that of a Nobel Prize in Physics. 
He was also the recipient of Padma Bhushan in 2013.

Guys just lets just not think Engineering and Medicine is the only set of courses to do to go great heights!