Shobhana Narasimhan

3. In operation (not broken), central to her computational technique
5. Had the hottest temperature in 2010, also a port of call in her research journey
7. Lit. Peace, linked to the location of the Career Development Workshop for Women in Physics
8. Car of the masses, her regime of interest
11. swim up from the deep, focus of her research
12. The element of the information age and what she studied at HARVARD
13. Pvt. Univ. in Nashville, Tennessee, also closely associated with her
15. Will Hunting's arena and her favourite in high school

1. entwined twins, something her mother manages single-handedly
2. Indian woman of celestial fame lends her name to Shobhana’s award
4. Noble and valued, adjectives for both her and this system she studied
6. Univ. in Cambridge, her choice to make it on her own
9. Agent of change
10. South Mumbai landmark with links to her and NANO
11. Chemical Element associated with conspiracy theorists has a close connection to her
14. Make marks on paper, what she would have done instead of physics
16. unsatisfactory black box, but a powerful new computational paradigm
17. Age is just a number, especially in her case