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Shiraz Naval Minwalla<ref name="breakthrough.webpage"/> (born 2 January 1972)<ref name="ssb.prize">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> is an Indian theoretical physicist and string theorist.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He is a faculty member in the Department of Theoretical Physics at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Prior to his present position, Minwalla was a Harvard Junior Fellow and subsequently an assistant professor at Harvard University.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Early lifeEdit

Born in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, in 1972, to a Parsi Zoroastrian father (Naval) and a Bohra Muslim<ref>https://www.instagram.com/indialoveproject/p/CHy5hcyJysd/?img_index=1</ref> mother (Khadija), Minwalla graduated from Campion School, Mumbai in 1988 and then Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 1995. He later moved to Princeton University to earn his PhD under the guidance of Nathan Seiberg.<ref name = "breakthrough.webpage"/>

AwardsEdit

Minwalla was awarded the Swarnajayanti Fellowship 2005–06 by the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India. He was awarded the ICTP Prize in 2010 and the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, the highest science award in India, in the physical sciences category in 2011.<ref>"11 scientists selected for Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award" ibn live, 26 September 2011. {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="ssb.prize"/>

He was awarded the Infosys Prize 2013 in the field of Physical Sciences by the Infosys Science Foundation.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="hindu_nov_13">Template:Cite news</ref> Minwalla was awarded the 2014 New Horizons in Physics Prize by the Fundamental Physics Prize for "his pioneering contributions to the study of string theory and quantum field theory; and in particular his work on the connection between the equations of fluid dynamics and Albert Einstein's equations of general relativity."<ref name="hindu_nov_13" /><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2016, The World Academy of Sciences awarded him the TWAS Prize in Physics.<ref name="Prizes and Awards">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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Personal lifeEdit

Shiraz Minwalla lives in Mumbai with his wife and their two children.<ref name="breakthrough.webpage"/>

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