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Context: Recently, Indian-American Shrinivas Kulkarni was awarded the Shaw Prize in Astronomy for More on the News: He won this prestigious Shaw Prize in Astronomy for his ground-breaking discoveries about millisecond pulsars, gamma-ray bursts, supernovae,
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