11 Facts About Amitava Raychaudhuri

Amitava Raychaudhuri is Professor Emeritus at the Physics Department of the Science College, University of Calcutta where he earlier held the Sir Tarak Nath Palit Chair Professorship.

Amitava Raychaudhuri later attended Presidency College, Calcutta from where he obtained his BSc degree in Physics in 1970 and then went on to complete his MSc degree at Delhi University in 1973.

Under the supervision of Oscar W Greenberg, Raychaudhuri obtained his PhD degree in Particle Physics from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1977.

Amitava Raychaudhuri was a Visiting Professor at the Oklahoma State University.

Amitava Raychaudhuri was the Director of the Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad from 2005 to 2011 after which he rejoined the University of Calcutta as faculty.

Amitava Raychaudhuri has worked in diverse areas within particle physics encompassing quantum chromodynamics, grand unified theories, classical solutions, left-right symmetric models, FCNC, supersymmetry, neutrino physics, extra dimensions, etc.

Amitava Raychaudhuri made pioneering contributions in 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.

Amitava Raychaudhuri holds a reputation of a charismatic teacher among his students.

Amitava Raychaudhuri is a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad and the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore.

Amitava Raychaudhuri was a two-term senior associate of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy.

In 2005, Amitava Raychaudhuri was conferred the honour of International Alumnus of the Year by the University of Maryland Alumni Association.