Vijay Kumar Kapahi

Vijay Kumar Kapahi
Born	(1944-01-21)21 January 1944 Quetta, British Balochistan
Died	16 March 1999(1999-03-16) (aged 55) Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Alma mater	St. Joseph's College, Bangalore Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Bombay University
Known for	Studies on radio galaxies, quasars and observational cosmology
Awards	1987 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize 1987 Vikram Sarabhai Research Award 1991 AAS Henri Chretien Research Grant Award
Scientific career
Fields	Astrophysics Radio astronomy
Institutions	National Centre for Radio Astrophysics
Doctoral advisor	Govind Swarup, FRS
Doctoral students	Prajval Shastri, Ramana Athreya

Vijay Kumar Kapahi (21 January 1944 – 16 March 1999) was an Indian astrophysicist and the director of the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, an autonomous division of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. Known for his research on radio galaxies, quasars and observational cosmology, Kapahi was an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies – Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian National Science Academy and National Academy of Sciences, India – as well as of the Maharashtra Academy of Sciences. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology for his contributions to physical sciences in 1987.^{[1][note 1]}

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