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Indian Fellow

Indian Fellow

Name

Professor Bimla Buti
(Professor Bimla Buti)

FNA ID

N81-0132

Address

B-8/6042, Vasant Kunj,

City

New Delhi

Pin Code110070

Country

India

GenderFemale

Year Of Birth

1933

Specialization

Plasma Physics

Service in the Council

Member, 1991-1993

Qualification

PhD

Membership

FNASc, FTWAS

AwardJawarharlal Nehru Birth Centenary Lecture, 1993
INSA-Vainu Bappu Award, 1994

Year of Election

1981

Elected Age48

E-mailbimlabuti@gmail.com, butib@butifoundation.org

Personal Website
Summary
After earning BSc (Hons) and MSc from Delhi University, Buti studied at the Department of Physics, University of Chicago. There she workedwith S Chandrasekhar and obtained her PhD in Plasma Physics in 1962. On her return from USA, she worked at Delhi University as a Post
Doc, but decided to go back to USA to work at Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA). She worked at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi(1968-70). Vikram Sarabhai, the then Director, Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), invited her to join PRL, where she worked from 1970 to1993 as Associate Professor, Professor, Senior Professor and Dean of Faculty.
Academic and Research Achievements: At PRL, Buti initiated the experimental Plasma Physics programme. This group grew and eventually
moved out of PRL and formed a new institute, now known as Institute of Plasma Research under Department of Atomic Energy. She was theDirector of Plasma Physics at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy during 1985-2003. Besides publishing a large
number of research papers, she has edited four books. She trained a number of students and has worked at different NASA centers, namely,
Goddard Space Flight Centre, MD; Ames Research Centre, CA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, CA. After her retirement she
spent four years at JPL, Pasadena.
Other Contributions: She founded Plasma Science Society of India and served as its President (1992-93). She was an Associate Editor ofIEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, USA (1977-83) and served as Vice President (1988-91) and President, Commission 49, International
Astronomical Union (1991-94). She was a member of Governing Council of Nuclear Science Centre, New Delhi (1996-98) and of Inter
University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (1997-99). During 1997-99, she was also a member of Physics Panel, University Grants
Commission, New Delhi. She has instituted a number of awards through Physical Research Laboratory, Indian Physics Association and awards
for young scientists through Plasma Science Society of India; a scholarship and a Gold Medal for the best woman Acientist at IIT, Delhi. Buti
served as INSA Council Member (1991-93).
Awards and Honours: Professor Buti received the Vikram Sarabhai Award for Planetary Sciences (1977), Jawaharlal Nehru Birth Centenary
Lectureship Award (1993), INSA Vainu Bappu Medal for Astronomy and Astrophysics (1994), Professional Achievement Citation Award ofUniversity of Chicago, USA (1996) and US Medal for Fundamental Contributions in the Physics of Nonlinear Waves and Chaos (2010). She isa Fellow of TWAS, the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, the National Academy of Sciences (India), Allahabad and the American
Physical Society.

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