Noted physicist Rohini Godbole, a staunch advocate for Indian women in science, passes away

Pune-born Godbole was an alumnus of SP College and IIT, Bombay. In 1979, she earned her doctorate from Stony Brooks University, USA.

A much-loved teacher, Godbole, who would person turned 72 connected November 12, ever participated successful sheet discussions that focused connected opening up the Indian subject arena to women and suggested ways to clasp and enactment women, particularly those connected a vocation break.

She often criticised however world organization hirings and promotions favoured antheral candidates, failing to enactment the qualifications and skills possessed by women scientists. She was besides vocal astir the disparity successful the enactment of awards and recognitions, galore of which arsenic she would constituent retired were handed to men.

Godbole was among the members who submitted the study titled ‘INSA Report: Access of Indian Women to Careers successful Science’, a first-of-its-kind papers that dealt with issues that Indian women faced portion pursuing subject successful assemblage and aboriginal arsenic a career.

She had served arsenic a subordinate of the coordination and steering committee for CERN-India since 2015 and was besides a subordinate of the Scientific Advisory Committee to the Union Cabinet successful the 2007-2013 period.

She was a recipient of galore prestigious awards, including the Padma Shri, France’s Ordre nationalist du Mérite, and the Lifetime Achievement grant fixed by the Karnataka subject and exertion department, among others.