Rana X. Adhikari
American experimental physicist
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| January 2020 | Participated in an exchange with Australian recording artist Tex Crick in Scientific Inquirer, discussing time travel. Additionally, appeared on Y Combinator podcast discussing gravitational wave measurement challenges and on Seeker's The Good, the Bad, and the Science Podcast. |
| 2019 | Received New Horizons in Physics Prize from the Breakthrough Foundation, recognizing his significant contributions to physics. |
| 2019 | Became a member of the Infosys Prize jury for physical sciences. |
| 2019 | Received the New Horizons in Physics Prize along with Lisa Barsotti and Matt Evans from MIT for research on gravitational wave detectors. |
| 2018 | Elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society, acknowledging his distinguished scientific achievements. |
| 2017 | Co-recipient of multiple prestigious awards, including the Albert Einstein Medal, Princess of Asturias Award, Physics World Breakthrough of the Year Award, Bruno Rossi Prize, and Group Award of the Royal Astronomical Society. |
| 2017 | Featured in Rachel Mason's 'Singularity Song', a meditation on black holes, which was released on the anniversary of the first gravitational waves detection. |
| July 2017 | Participated in Limits of Knowing, a month-long exhibition at Berliner Festspiele, presenting an immersive mixed media artwork named 'Untitled' that sensed and recorded environmental data at Martin-Gropius-Bau. |
| 2016 | Co-recipient of the Physics World Breakthrough of the Year Award, Gruber Cosmology Prize, and Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. Also received recognition from the California Legislature for his scientific contributions. |
| 2015 | Contributed to the LIGO discovery of gravitational waves, a groundbreaking scientific achievement in experimental physics. |
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