Dr. Gireesh Pimpale

Dr. Gireesh Prabhakar Pimpale is specialized in Astronomy. He has many research papers on ‘Astronomy and Astrophysics Education’ published in National and International journals. He was awarded a research grant by the University Grants Commission for ‘The Study of Variable Stars'. He has also authored several books in Marathi on Astronomy. His book “Vedh Khagolacha” was given the Best Marathi Literature Award by the Govt. of Maharashtra. He has delivered hundreds of lectures on topics like Voyage into Space, The Story of Hubble Telescope, Career in Physics and Astronomy, Higgs boson and the Large Hadron Collider, and Detection of Gravitational Waves. Dr. Gireesh Pimpale is working relentlessly to propagate Swatantryaveer Vinayak Damodar Savarkar’s thoughts for the last 40 years. He has contributed many articles / delivered many lectures on Savarkar in various institutions. He has designed and developed an audio-visual program “Shatapailoo Savarkar” to effectively take his biography to the masses using modern PowerPointlike contributed presentation technology. This is the ‘first program of its kind’. He was felicitated by the Savarkar Sahitya Abhyas Mandal, Mumbai. And Savarkar Sahitya Sammelan, Pune. Stars