Pune: Sonit Sisolekar, India’s youngest volcanologist, awarded PM Bal Puraskar
Mirror Online / Updated: Jan 26, 2021, 13:33 IST
Sonit Sisolekar
Sonit Sisolekar, who turned 14 on Tuesday, received his birthday present a day early when he was named among the recipients of Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar on the eve of India s 72nd Republic Day.
He is being awarded for his excellence in the field of Scholastics.
Sonit, a student of Class 8, is among the youngest volcanologists and planetary geologists in India. His research on the effects of ionising radiations on the reddening of soil on Mars helped him win the NASA-CIS competition.
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