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Mukul Kundu papers

1970-2010 (majority 1980-2010)

http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/15633

Mukul Kundu (1930-2010) was a professor emeritus at the University of Maryland, College Park in the Astronomy and Physics. He received his Doctorate of Science from the University of Paris (Sorbonne) in 1957. Before coming to the University of Maryland he was an associate professor at Cornell University and a Professor at the Tata University of Fundamental Research in India. He was a U.S.Senior Scientist awardee of the Humboldt Foundation (Humboldt Prize). This collection consists of Astronomy Department committee files, correspondence, research papers, photographs, book reviews, and lecture materials. His papers contain numerous images of sun spots and solar flares. Dr. Kundu's research focused on solar and stellar radio physics, galactic supernova remnants, microflares, and solar active regions. This collection is unprocessed but a preliminary inventory is available.

25.50 linear feet.

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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Kundu, Mukul Ranjan, 1930-2010

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Mukul Ranjan Kundu (born 10 February 1930 in Kolkata, India) was a solar physicist and professor. He received his BSc in physics and his MSc in radio physics and electronics from the University of Kolkata in 1949 and 1951, respectively. He studied at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, and earned his PhD from the Sorbonne (University of Paris) in 1957. He began teaching at the University of Michigan in 1959 before joining Cornell University as an associate professor in 1962. From 1965-1968, h...

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Dept. of Astronomy.

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