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Line 18: \| awards = {{ublist\| 2000 [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]] \| 2014 Homi Bhabha Medal}} }} '''Varun Bhisham Sahni''' (born March 29, 1956) is an Indian theoretical physicist, astrophysicist and a Distinguished Professor at the [[Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics]].<ref name=" Faculty">{{Cite web \|url=http://www.iucaa.in:8080/iucaa/jsp/N-People.jsp \|title= Faculty \|date=2017-10-19 \|website=Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics \|access-date=2017-10-19}}</ref> Known for his research on cosmology,<ref name="Summary of faculty research interests">{{Cite web \|url=http://www.iucaa.ernet.in/research.html \|title=Summary of faculty research interests \|date=2017-10-19 \|website=Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics \|access-date=2017-10-19 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100611140022/http://www.iucaa.ernet.in/Research.html \|archive-date=2010-06-11 \|~~dead-~~url-status=~~yes~~dead \|df= }}</ref> Sahni is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies viz. [[Indian Academy of Sciences]],<ref name="Fellow profile">{{Cite web \|url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Sahni,_Prof._Varun_Bhisham \|title=Fellow profile \|date=2017-10-17 \|publisher=[[Indian Academy of Sciences]] \|access-date=2017-10-17}}</ref> [[Indian National Science Academy]]<ref name="INSA Year Book 2016">{{Cite web \|url=http://www.insaindia.res.in/pdf/YearBook_2016.pdf \|title=INSA Year Book 2016 \|date=2017 \|publisher=[[Indian National Science Academy]]}}</ref> and [[National Academy of Sciences, India]].<ref name="NASI fellows">{{Cite web \|url=http://www.nasi.org.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=S \|title=NASI fellows \|date=2017 \|publisher=National Academy of Sciences, India}}</ref> The [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]], the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology]], one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to physical sciences in 2000.<ref name="View Bhatnagar Awardees">{{Cite web \|url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/AwardeeList.aspx \|title=View Bhatnagar Awardees \|date=2017-11-11 \|publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize \|access-date=2017-11-11}}</ref>{{Refn\|group=note\|Long link - please select award year to see details}} Sahni is reported to have studied the universe, more specifically its large-scale structure, the early inflationary phase and cosmological constant.<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee">{{Cite web \|url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/Detail.aspx?AID=24 \|title=Brief Profile of the Awardee \|date=2017-10-17 \|publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize \|access-date=2017-10-17}}</ref> His achievements include the establishment of a cosmic no-hair theorem related to inflation, analysis of the universe structure using self-developed statistical methods, discovery of novel models of [[dark energy]] and [[dark matter]], design of unified models of Inflation and dark energy and the elucidation of [[Big Bang theory]] using [[Brane cosmology\|Braneworld physics]].<ref name="Indian fellow">{{Cite web \|url=http://insaindia.res.in/detail/P11-1555 \|title=Indian fellow \|date=2017-10-17 \|publisher=Indian National Science Academy \|access-date=2017-10-17}}</ref> His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles<ref name="On ResearchGate">{{Cite web \|url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Varun_Sahni2 \|title=On ResearchGate \|date=2017-10-17 \|publisher=On ResearchGate \|access-date=2017-10-17}}</ref>{{Refn\|group=note\|Please see ''Selected bibliography'' section}} and the online article repository of the Indian Academy of Sciences has listed 68 of them.<ref name="Browse by Fellow">{{Cite web \|url=http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/fellows/Sahni=3AVarun_Bhisham=3A=3A.html \|title=Browse by Fellow \|date=2017-10-17 \|publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences \|access-date=2017-10-17}}</ref> Line 39: * [[Somak Raychaudhury]] {{Div col end}} {{~~portal~~Portal\|India\|Physics}} == Notes == {{~~reflist~~Reflist\|group=note\|2}} == References == {{~~reflist~~Reflist\|30em}} == External links ==

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