Abhay Ashtekar

It was Wangchuk’s character that Aamir Khan was portraying in the movie 3 Idiots. Earlier this year, he was honoured with the Ramon Magsaysay Award.

"Later, in college, fundamental physics seemed to me to be the deepest and purest way to pursue [an] understanding of Nature (the external world). In graduate school, I chose to work in general relativity, cosmology and quantum physics because that is where the most fundamental questions about space, time and the nature of the physical universe are discussed."