Baron Nicolet Prize for Aeronomy

Rajesh Kumar was awarded the prestigious Baron Nicolet Prize for Aeronomy, presented by the Royal Belgian Academy of Sciences. The prize aims to recognize and reward outstanding contributions in the field of aeronomy, promoting research that enhances our understanding of the Earth's atmosphere and its interactions with space. This prize is further validation of Rajesh's extraordinary work.

This prestigious prize is named in honor of the renowned Belgian scientist Baron Marcel Nicolet (1912-1996), a distinguished figure in the field of Aeronomy — the study of the upper atmosphere of the Earth and other planets, including phenomena like ionospheric physics, atmospheric chemistry, and the behavior of the upper layers of the atmosphere under the influence of solar and cosmic radiation.