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url(https://www.shawprize.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/2024_AN_Shrinivas-R-Kulkarni_revised.png) bottom center no-repeat;background-size: cover"></div> <h6 class="d-body sohne">Shrinivas R Kulkarni</h6> </li> </ul> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="row "> <div class="col-sm-7 "> <div class="d-body margin-40-bottom"><p>for his ground-breaking discoveries about millisecond pulsars, gamma-ray bursts, supernovae, and other variable or transient astronomical objects. His contributions to time-domain astronomy culminated in the conception, construction and leadership of the Palomar Transient Factory and its successor, the Zwicky Transient Facility, which have revolutionised our understanding of the time-variable optical sky.</p> </div> <a href="https://www.shawprize.org/laureates/2024-astronomy/" class="b-button b-button-border margin-40-bottom"> <h6 class="d-button">Learn More</h6> </a> </div> </div> </div> </section> </li> <li class=" life-science-medicine"> <section class=" previous-block "> <div class="container"> <div class="row margin-60-bottom"> <div class="col-sm-4"> <h4 class="margin-20-bottom m-margin-4-bottom">2024</h4> <h4 class="m-margin-20-bottom"> Life Science & Medicine</h4> </div> </div> <div class="row margin-60-bottom"> <div class="col-sm-12 "> <ul class="previous-l-list "> <ul> <li> <div class="margin-20-bottom portrait-wrap" style="width: 100%;height: 300px;background: #2A3C80 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