HT This Day: April 04, 2007 -- ‘My work got Nobel, not me’

INDIAN SCIENTISTS maintain this Indian-American physicist was wrongfully denied the Nobel prize at least twice — in 1979 and 2005

INDIAN SCIENTISTS maintain this Indian-American physicist was wrongfully denied the Nobel prize at least twice — in 1979 and 2005.

HT This Day: April 04, 2007 -- ‘My work got Nobel, not me’

Now, for the first time, E.C.G. Sudarshan has broken his silence over the Nobel controversy . Speaking to HT, he expressed frustration at the way Indians are ignored for top science honours.

“The 2005 Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my work, but I wasn’t the one to get it. Each one of the discoveries that the Nobel was given for were based on my research,” he said.

Kerala-born Sudarshan, professor at the University of Texas, Austin, is here to receive the Padma Vibhushan.

On October 16, 2005, HT was the first to report the outrage among Indian scientists when Roy J. Glauber of the US shared the Physics Nobel for his theoretical description of the behaviour of light particles. Stressing that Sudarshan, who had worked independently on the same subject at the same time, had produced more lucid results, these scientists had petitioned the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences over the “grave miscarriage of justice”.