Alex Hankey

His primary student, Dr. Ameya Krishna B, is a scientist in Nanotechnology at the MESA+ Institute of Nanotechnology in Enschede, the Netherlands, and is the co-founder of Indus Healthcare in Bangalore, India. They together represented India at the Houses of Commons in the British Parliament in June 2019 and spoke about indigenous medical sciences, integrative medicine, and Yoga. They argued that natural systems of medicine and minimal use of chemical intervention could be a sustainable means to healthier populations, reducing the burden on National Health Systems.

Hankey was educated at Rugby School, Warwickshire, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he attained a first in Natural Sciences Tripos. Specializing in theoretical physics, he moved to MIT, to do a PhD under Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg and Eugene Stanley in the area of critical phenomena. He obtained his PhD in 1972, and thereafter he authored/co-authored many papers on the same, which now have resurfaced as applications to criticality in biosystems.

Alex Hankey (born 18 August 1947) is a theoretical physicist trained at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Cambridge University. He was a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Deeply interested in Vedanta, Yoga, and Ayurveda, he played a vital role in setting up Maharishi University of Management and later on became a professor at it, where he taught the first undergraduate course in philosophy of science. His current work relates to applying a combination of philosophical arguments and knowledge of Vedic sciences to solve the problems with in modern science, and thereby refining the foundations of physics, biology, and information theory.