CHANDIGARH: Dr Rajesh Kochhar has passed away after a brief illness on Wednesday. Professor Kochhar had been a Jawaharlal fellow, a Fulbright visiting lecturer, a visiting scholar at University of Cambridge department of history and philosophy of science; and honorary professor of history of science and technology at National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore.
He was the recipient of National Academy of Sciences India’s Professor R C Gupta Endowment History of Science Lecture Award and Indian National Science Academy’s 2014 Indira Gandhi Prize for Popularization of Science.
