Shukla Receives 2012 Padma Shri Award from the Government of India
Shukla Awarded 52nd IMO Prize by World Meteorological Organization
Shukla Part of 2007 Nobel Peace Prize-Winning IPCC
Shukla Awarded Carl Gustaf Rossby Medal
Shukla Establishes Gandhi College in his Native Village in Ballia
Shukla Profile in The New York Times
Meeting Jule Charney
Honors and Awards

A Brief Biography:

J. Shukla was born in 1944 in a small village (Mirdha) in the Ballia district of Uttar Pradesh, India. This village had no electricity, no roads or transportation, and no primary school building. Most of his primary school education was received under a large banyan tree. He passed from the S.R.S. High School, Sheopur, in the first class with distinction in Mathematics and Sanskrit. He was unable to study science in high school because none of the schools near his village included science education. His father, the late Shri Chandra Shekhar Shukla, asked him to read all the science books for classes 6 through 10 during the summer before he was admitted to the S.C. College, Ballia, to study science. After passing the twelfth grade from S.C. College, he went to Banaras Hindu University (B.H.U.) where, at the age of 18, he passed BS (honors) with Physics, Mathematics, and Geology in the first class and then earned the MS in Geophysics in the first class in 1964. He received PhD in Geophysics from BHU in 1971 and ScD in Meteorology from MIT in 1976.

Selected Honors and Awards

2008: Chairman, International Advisory Panel for Weather and Climate, India
2007: Lead Author, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
2007: International Meteorological Organization Prize of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
2005: Rossby Medal of the American Meteorological Society (AMS)
2001: Walker Gold Medal of the Indian Meteorological Society (IMS)
1999: Founded Gandhi College for women in a village in India
1993: Founded Institute of Global Environment and Society (IGES)
1983: Founded, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere (COLA)
1982: Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal of NASA

More Information:

Professional Biography (MS word doc)

Dr. Shukla's Curriculum Vitae (short version): (HTML format) (PDF file) (MS Word doc)

Dr. Shukla's Curriculum Vitae (complete): (PDF file) (MS Word doc)

Dr. Shukla's Publication List

WMO Bulletin Interview (MS word doc)

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