Mukul Ranjan Kundu

Gopalswamy presents an obituary for renowned solar physicist and radio astronomer Mukul Ranjan Kundu, who died on Jun 17, 2010 from complications after an automobile accident that occurred when he was returning home from work. work. A recipient of the American Astronomical Society's 2007 George Ellery Hale Prize, Mukul spent his entire career studying the radiophysics of the Sun. His work significantly advanced the understanding of the interactions between accelerated electrons and the magnetized solar corona and of the myriad nonthermal radio phenomena that resulted.