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Ashoke Sen, the celebrated physicist from Kolkata, has just become the first Indian to win the prestigious Oskar Klein Medal for his groundbreaking work in string theory and our understanding of black holes. But black holes have more to do with Kolkata than you think. Thread 1/12
During a lecture in 1960, he mentioned the phrase, “like the Black Hole of Calcutta” to explain the extreme space-time deformation, and thus the term originated to name the most enigmatic object in the universe. 11/12
A young Bengali graduate chases mosquitoes and malaria patients for a British doctor in Calcutta for days, helps crack how malaria spreads, a discovery that changed the fate of civilization, then watches his boss win the Nobel Prize without once saying his name. Thread. 1/22
In Ross’s Nobel lecture on how malaria spreads, his name does not appear even once. But, Kishori Mohan didn’t wait for Ross to give him credit. He went back to the villages, teaching people how to protect themselves from the disease he had helped decode. 22/22