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Profile Summary
In the office from Nov 2002 to Nov 2008
Awards Summary
Significant Awards
1998- H. K. Firodia Awards
2007- Homi Bhabha Lifetime Achievement
2010- Meghnadh Saha Medal
2011- Lifetime Achievement Award
Awards
- Dr. Sikka was widely honored for his scientific contributions through several reputed awards, including Padma Shri, Fellowship of all the three National Science Academies, and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Department of Atomic Energy.
- He was awarded the fourth highest civilian award of the Padma Shri, by the Government of India, in 1999.
Profile
- Satinder Kumar Sikka earned his BSc (1960) from Punjab University after which he joined Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) through its Training School.
- He obtained PhD (1970) from Bombay University under the supervision of R Chidambaram.
- Between 1961 and 2002 at BARC, he worked in the fields of neutron diffraction, X-ray crystallography, and high pressure and shock wave physics.
- He also participated in conducting the Indian nuclear explosions of 1974 and 1998.
- He rose to become Distinguished Scientist and Director of Atomic and Condensed Matter Physics Group at BARC and was Scientific Secretary to Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India from 2002 to 2008.
- He was known to have played a crucial role, along with Raja Ramanna, Rajagopala Chidambaram and Basanti Dulal Nagchaudhuri, in the design and development of a hydrogen bomb by India, which was tested at the Pokhran Test Range in May 1998, under the code name, Operation Shakthi.
- He was also involved in the Smiling Buddha tests, conducted in 1974.