Amitava Raychaudhuri

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Amitava Raychaudhuri
Doctoral advisorOscar W. Greenberg

Amitava Raychaudhuri is an Indian

Science College, University of Calcutta where he earlier held the Sir Tarak Nath Palit Chair Professorship.[1] He is the nephew of another renowned Indian physicist, Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri.[citation needed
]

Early life and education

Raychaudhuri was born in

Oscar W. Greenberg, Raychaudhuri obtained his PhD degree in Particle Physics from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1977.[citation needed
]

Research and career

Amitava Raychaudhuri taking a class at the University of Calcutta.

After postdoctoral work at the

Allahabad from 2005 to 2011 after which he rejoined the University of Calcutta as faculty.[3]

Raychaudhuri has worked in diverse areas within particle physics encompassing

CP-violation in supersymmetric models, the possibility of parity restoration at relatively low energies, neutrino masses and mixing in supersymmetric and other models, long baseline neutrino experiments, besides making a brief but important foray in the foundations of quantum mechanics.[1]
He holds a reputation of a charismatic teacher among his students.

Awards and achievements

He was the recipient of the

Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy. In 2005, Raychaudhuri was conferred the honour of International Alumnus of the Year by the University of Maryland Alumni Association. He is a recipient of D.Sc. (honoris causa) from the University of Gour Banga and the University of North Bengal
.

Notes

  1. ^ a b c "INSA". Archived from the original on 12 August 2016. Retrieved 13 May 2016.
  2. ^ "South Point Ex Students' Association :: Exceptional". www.aspexs.com. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016.
  3. ^ "Inspire".
  4. ^ "Department of Physics - Calcutta University".

References

  • Narlikar, J. V. (January 2006), "Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri" (PDF), Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy: 169, archived from the original on 4 July 2013{{citation}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)

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