Shrinivas Kulkarni

Kulkarni is the kind of scientist I quietly idolize. From a small town in Kolhapur to Berkeley and then a long reign at Caltech running Palomar and Keck, his path reads like a love letter to the night sky that never cooled off. The award shelf, from the Waterman to the Dan David Prize and a Royal Society fellowship, is staggering, but what moves me is the subject matter: transient and explosive phenomena, the universe at its most dramatic. He chose to chase the cosmos in real time. That blend of childhood wonder and relentless rigor is rare, and deeply admirable.

Name (English)

Shrinivas Kulkarni

Name (Japanese)

シュリニヴァス・クルカルニ

Reading

しゅりにゔぁす・くるかるに

Born

October 4, 1956 (age 69)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Monkey

Origin

Kurundwad, Kolhapur district, India

Occupation

physicist / astronomer / teacher

University

University of California, Berkeley

Awards & achievements

• Fellow of the Royal Society
• 1991 Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy
• 2017 Dan David Prize
• 1992 Alan T. Waterman Award
• Infosys Prize
• 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship
• 1990 Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%83%AA%E3%83%8B%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%AB%E3%83%8B

Tags

• Kolhapur district
• physicist
• astronomer
• teacher

Last updated

2026-06-02

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