About the Author: Dr. P.
Kumar is an eminent mathematician and meteorologist with over 5 decades of
rich and varied experience across multiple disciplines. He completed his PhD in Fluid
Dynamics and Magneto-Hydrodynamics from Banaras Hindu University in 1973. He
then joined the Indian Air Force (IAF) and was commissioned as an officer in
the Meteorological Branch where he served for 22 years and retired as Wing
Commander.
After retirement, he entered
academics and had various successful stints across India and retired as Head of
Department (Core Engineering and Engineering Sciences), MIT College of
Engineering, Pune.
He has authored 8 books on
Mathematics, Meteorology, Hydraulics, and Physics and published more than 60
papers in various international and national journal. His theory of tornado
genesis is the first and only theory of its kind in the world. He is a Life
Member of Indian Meteorological Society and Indian Mathematical Society.
He is the recipient of American
Meteorological Society's “Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Advance of
Applied Meteorology” in 2022 and is the first scientist outside of USA to be
recognized with this award.
He lives in Pune, India with his wife Kiran. |
