Satya Prakash (born 1 July 1929) is an Indian plasma physicist and a former senior professor at the Physical Research Laboratory.
The Government of India honored him with Padma Shri, the fourth highest Indian civilian award for his contributions to the discipline of Physics, in 1982.
After his Ph D degree from Gujarat University, he continued his cosmic ray studies at National Research Council Canada as a Post- Doctoral fellow with Prof.
Diarmid during 1958–60 and worked on the development of cosmic ray neutron detectors at California Institute of Technology as Post- Doctoral fellow with Prof. H.V.
The VHF Radar developed by him at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thumba has now grown into a powerful system and is being used for the study of the EEJ and the F region dynamics.
[citation needed] Satya Prakash was married to Sushila Mittal, and has three children; Meena, Veena, and Div.
[3] A fellow of the Gujarat Science Academy,[4] Satya Prakash received the Hari Om Ashram Prerit Senior Scientist Award in 1975.The Government of India included him in the Republic Day honors list in 1982 for the fourth highest civilian award of the Padma Shri, for his contributions in the field of Physics.