Ajoy Ghatak

Dr. Ajoy Ghatak
Born (1939-11-09)November 9, 1939
Lucknow
Residence New Delhi
Citizenship Indian
Nationality India
Fields Physics
Institutions Indian Institute of Technology
Alma mater Delhi University
Cornell University
Academic advisors Hans Bethe, Mark Nelkin
Notable students K. Thyagarajan, RK Varshney,B.P. Pal, Anurag Sharma, IC Goyal, GP Agrawal
Known for Research on photonics, fiber optics and education in India
Notable awards SS Bhatnagar Award (India's Highest award in sciences), OSA Fellow, Fellow National Academy of Sciences India, OSA Esther Hoffman Beller Award, ICO Galileo Galilei Award, SPIE educator award

Ajoy Ghatak (born November 9, 1939) is an Indian Bengali physicist and author of physics textbooks.

Professor Ghatak has written over 170 research papers and more than 20 books (see Selected Publications below). His undergraduate text on Optics has been translated to Chinese and Persian and his monograph on Inhomogeneous Optical Waveguides (coauthored with Professor Sodha) has been translated to Chinese and Russian.[1] In 1995, he was elected Fellow of the Optical Society of America "for distinguished service to optics education and for his contribution to the understanding of propagation characteristics of gradient index media, fibers and integrated optical devices".[2]

He received his M.Sc from Delhi University and Ph.D from Cornell University. After a short stint as a Research Associate at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Professor Ghatak joined the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1966.[2] He retired as an Emeritus Professor of Physics at IIT Delhi in 2007.[3]

Professor Ghatak now spends his time writing books and doing special guest lectures at universities and colleges in India and internationally.[4][5]

Selected awards and honors

Selected publications[10]

References

  1. Miranda House events (PDF), retrieved 8 November 2010
  2. 1 2 Ajoy Ghatak biography, International Commission for Optics, retrieved 7 November 2010
  3. IIT Kharagpur's biography on Ajoy Ghatak (PDF), Indian Institute of Technology, retrieved 8 November 2010
  4. BESU Events 2010, retrieved 8 November 2010
  5. SPIE Events, retrieved 8 November 2010
  6. SPIE Educator Award, retrieved 8 November 2010
  7. OSA's Esther Hoffman Beller Medal, retrieved 8 November 2010
  8. ICO Galileo Galilei Award, retrieved 8 November 2010
  9. S. S. Bhatnagar award for Physical Sciences, retrieved 8 November 2010
  10. The full list of publications can be found here (accessed 8 November 2010)
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