# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/padma-kant-shukla
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:58:10.397Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/padma-kant-shukla"
name: "Padma Kant Shukla"
slug: "padma-kant-shukla"
description: "Padma Kant Shukla was a distinguished Professor and first International Chair of the Physics and Astronomy Department of Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany. He was also the director of the International Centre for Advanced Studies in Physical Sciences at Ruhr-University Bochum. He held a PhD in physics from Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi, India and a second doctorate in Theoretical Plasma Physics from Umeå University in Sweden."
tagline: "Indian astrophysicist (1950-2013)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0d/Padma_Kant_Shukla.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1950-07-07"
deathDate: "2013-01-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.270194666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Padma Kant Shukla"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump