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{{Infobox person
| name = Bishun Khare
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| birth_name = Bishun Narain Khare
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1933|6|27}}
| birth_place = [[Varanasi]], India
| death_date ={{Death date and age|df=yes|2013|8|20|1933|6|20}}
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| other_names =
| occupation = Research Scientist
| known_for = [[Tholin]]
}}

'''Bishun Narain Khare''' (27 June 1933 – 20 August 2013) was a scientist who specialized in the chemistry of planetary atmospheres and of molecules relevant to biology.<ref name="google">{{cite book|title=American Men & Women of Science|author=R.R. Bowker Company. Database Publishing Group|date=2009|volume=4|publisher=Bowker|isbn=9781414433042|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6YNUAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=2015-09-12}}</ref> He published several papers on [[tholin]]s, the organic molecules formed by ultraviolet radiation or cosmic rays.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Sagan|first1=Carl|last2=Khare|first2=B. N.|date=January 1979|title=Tholins: organic chemistry of interstellar grains and gas|journal=Nature|language=En|volume=277|issue=5692|pages=102–107|doi=10.1038/277102a0|issn=0028-0836|bibcode=1979Natur.277..102S|s2cid=4261076}}</ref><ref name="KhareSagan1984" /><ref name="Khare2002"/><ref name="KhareMeyyappan2002" /> From 1968 to 1996, Khare worked in [[Carl Sagan]]'s Laboratory for Planetary Studies at [[Cornell University]]. During this time he appeared in the [[Cosmos: A Personal Voyage|Cosmos]] television series. From 1996 to 1998, he worked at the [[NASA Ames Research Center]] and from 1998 onward he worked at the [[SETI Institute]].

After his death, the [[International Astronomical Union]] named a crater on [[Pluto]] after him called the Khare Crater.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thebetterindia.com/191976/bishun-khare-bhu-pluto-crater-carl-sagan-iau-nasa-scientist-india/|title=Bishun Khare: The Forgotten Scientist Who Has a Crater on Pluto Named After Him!|date=2019-08-19|website=[[The Better India]]|language=en-US|access-date=2019-08-21}}</ref>

==Publications==
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<ref name="KhareSagan1984">{{cite journal|last1=Khare|first1=B.N.|last2=Sagan|first2=Carl|last3=Arakawa|first3=E.T.|last4=Suits|first4=F.|last5=Callcott|first5=T.A.|last6=Williams|first6=M.W.|title=Optical constants of organic tholins produced in a simulated Titanian atmosphere: From soft x-ray to microwave frequencies|journal=Icarus|volume=60|issue=1|year=1984|pages=127–137|issn=0019-1035|bibcode=1984Icar...60..127K|doi=10.1016/0019-1035(84)90142-8}}</ref>

<ref name="Khare2002">{{cite journal|author=Khare, B.N.|title=Analysis of the Time-Dependent Chemical Evolution of Titan Haze Tholin|journal=Icarus|volume=160|issue=1|year=2002|pages=172–182|issn=0019-1035|bibcode=2002Icar..160..172K|doi=10.1006/icar.2002.6899|url=https://zenodo.org/record/1229854|display-authors=etal}}</ref>

<ref name="KhareMeyyappan2002">{{cite journal|last1=Khare|first1=Bishun N.|last2=Meyyappan|first2=M.|last3=Cassell|first3=Alan M.|last4=Nguyen|first4=Cattien V.|last5=Han|first5=Jie|title=Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes Using Atomic Hydrogen from a Glow Discharge|journal=Nano Letters|volume=2|issue=1|year=2002|pages=73–77|issn=1530-6984|doi=10.1021/nl015646j|bibcode = 2002NanoL...2...73K }}</ref>
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==References/ External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130907071744/http://www.seti.org/users/bishun-khare Profile on SETI]
*[http://www.seti.org/bishun-khare Memorial Page on SETI]

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