D. D. Bhawalkar

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D. D. Bhawalkar
Born (1940-10-16) 16 October 1940 (age 83)
Firodia Award
Homi Bhabha Award

Dilip Devidas Bhawalkar is an Indian optical physicist and the founder director of the

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, the highest Indian award in science and technology.[3] The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian award of the Padma Shri in 2000.[4]

Biography

Bhawalkar, born on 16 October 1940 at

Lasers and started his career as a member of faculty at the same university in 1966.[2] His career at Southampton was short-lived as he returned to India in 1967 and accepted the job of a Scientific Officer at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) to continue his work on lasers. He stayed at BARC mainstream till 1987 during which period, he became the Section Head in 1973 and the Division Head in 1984.[5]

Dr. Bhawalkar was appointed as the founder director when 
Centre for Advanced Technology was started by the Department of Atomic Energy in 1987. In 2000, when he was due for his statutory superannuation, the Government extended his service for a further period of two years, till October 2002.[1] After his retirement in 2002, he joined Quantalase, an organization manufacturing industrial and medical lasers, as its director and holds the post till date.[6]

Legacy

Bhawalkar is one of the pioneers of laser in India and one of the early doctoral scholars in the technology when the discipline was at its nascent stage.

Southampton University, in their studies.[5]

Bhawalkar is credited with pioneering research on Lasers in India and was the initiator of a new method for measuring weak lensing in gases by employing a

European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).[2] His researches have been documented by over 80 scientific and organizational[7] articles, published in national and international peer reviewed journals.[5]

Positions

Bhawalkar is a Distinguished Scientist of the

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.[6] He served as the coordinator of DAE=CERN collaboration and the Integrated Long Term Programme of Cooperation, an Indo-Russian joint venture on lasers and accelerators and as a member of the Steering Committee of the International Linear Collider programme.[5] He is the founder president of the Indian Laser Association.[9] He is a member of the Indian Physics Association,[6] and a former member of the Asian Committee for Future Accelerators and the International Committee for Future Accelerators.[5] He chaired the Asian Committee for Future Accelerators (ACFA) and the Advanced Technology Committee of Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences of the Department of Atomic Energy and is a member of C-13 Committee of International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.[6]

Awards and honours

The

H. K. Firodia Award, in 2000.[14]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "CAT Director gets extension for two years". Centre for Advanced Technology. 2015. Archived from the original on 8 February 2017. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Dr.D.D.Bhawalkar retires as Director, CAT". Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology. 2015. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
  3. ^ a b c "Brief Profile of the Awardee". Council of Science and Industrial Research. 2015. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
  4. ^ a b "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "INSA Fellow". Indian National Science Academy. 2015. Archived from the original on 12 August 2016. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
  6. ^ a b c d e "About Director". Quantalase Enterprises. 2015. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
  7. ^ a b "LASER TECHNOLOGY IN INDIA". Press Information Bureau, Government of India. 2015. Retrieved 5 November 2015.
  8. ^ "CENTRE FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF ATOMIC ENERGY". International Atomic Energy Agency. 2015. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
  9. ^ "Earlier Executive Committees". 2015. Indian Laser Association. Retrieved 5 November 2015.
  10. ^ "IAS Fellow". Indian Academy of Sciences. 2015. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
  11. ^ "NASI Fellow". National Academy of Sciences, India. 2015. Archived from the original on 17 July 2015. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
  12. ^ "Optical Society of America Fellow". Optical Society of America. 2015. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
  13. ^ "Goyal Prize" (PDF). Kurukshetra University. 2015. Retrieved 5 November 2015.
  14. ^ "H K Firodia awards". H K Firodia Foundation. 2015. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015. Retrieved 5 November 2015.
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