Assam has every reason to celebrate. The reason is Uddhab Bharali. The entertrising scientist from Lakhimpur district once again has made the state proud. NASA has selected Bharali's name for a special award. Bharali"s name has been shortlisted along with 9 others from among 80 00 aspirants. NASA shortlisted Bharali for inventing a special chair for the psychiatric patients. This is for the second time Bharali would receive NASA award.
On the occasion of his birth centenary this year, Jyotiprasad Medhi Award in Mathematical Sciences is announced by his family. Professor Jyotiprasad Medhi was a world renowned scholar in Statistics who was born on 1st July 1924 in Ramdia, Assam. He received his D.Sc. (with Tres Honorable) from the University of Paris (Sorbonne) in 1956 and returned to Assam to teach at Gauhati University where he later became the Head of the Department in Statistics, Dean of Faculty of Science, and Acting Vice-Chancellor. His textbooks on Stochastic Processes and Queueing Theory are widely used for teaching in many academic institutions around the world. He passed away on 3rd February 2017 at the age of 92...
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