“India is investing in its Science and scientists to give them equipment and the ability to ask questions on the edge” – Brian Paul Schmidt

Diarytimes Media Network, Shimla

“PM Modi is certainly one of the most visible leaders,” says Nobel laureate Brian Paul Schmidt

Brian Schmidt grew up in Missoula, Montana, where his father worked as a fisheries biologist. His family later relocated to Anchorage, Alaska. Schmidt received a PhD from Harvard University in 1993 and, moved to Australia the following year, where he was involved in building the High-Z Supernova Search Team, as a part of which he conducted his Nobel Prize-awarded work. Schmidt is a Professor at the Australian National University in Weston Creek, Australia. He is married with two children.

‘India’s ability to do world-class Science has become just an order of magnitude higher because India is investing in its Science and scientists to give them equipment and the ability to ask questions on the edge. PM Modi is certainly one of the most visible leaders that India has had in my lifetime,’ says Nobel laureate Brian Paul Schmidt after meeting PM Narendra Modi in Sydney, Australia.

“Prime Minister Modi is certainly one of the most visible leaders that India has had in my lifetime, and just talking to him, I can see why. He’s very personable and really takes an interest in people when he talks to them. And I think that’s probably true of whoever he talks to, whether it’s the President of the United States or someone that he meets for the first time from society,” Brian Paul Schmidt said.

Brian Paul Schmidt is the winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics and has spent most of his academic career as an astrophysicist at the ANU Mount Stromlo Observatory and Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics before becoming Vice-Chancellor.