Probir Roy was born on 4 October 1942 and is an Indian particle physicist and a former professor at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.
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Probir Roy is a senior scientist of the Indian National Science Academy at Bose Institute and a former Raja Ramanna fellow of Department of Atomic Energy at Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics.
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Probir Roy remained in the US for three more years for his post-doctoral work at Cornell University where he worked at the laboratories of Kenneth G Wilson, who would go on to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1982, and Toichiro Kinoshita, an APS fellow, simultaneously serving the University as an instructor.
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Probir Roy served the institution for three decades and half and before his superannuation from TIFR service as a senior professor in 2017, he held various positions as reader, associate professor and professor.
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Probir Roy is married to Manashi Bhattacharya and the couple has two children, Jagori and Analabha.
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Probir Roy has developed a new sum rule in two-photon processes which is related to the collision of two real polarised photons and the equation is known as Probir Roy's Sum Rule.
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Probir Roy has done extensive studies on neutrinos and Higgs mesons which covered the detection of heavy neutrinos, ultralight neutrinos in super-symmetry, oscillations and flavours, and his studies on neutrino detection helped India-based Neutrino Observatory in blueprinting the proposed detector at the observatory.
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Probir Roy's studies have been documented by way of a number of articles and the online article repository of the Indian Academy of Sciences has listed 106 of them.
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Probir Roy has contributed chapters to books published by others and has mentored doctoral and post-doctoral scholars.
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Probir Roy is one among the Indian participants in the Oxford-India Network in Theoretical Physical Sciences, an initiative promoted by the John Fell Fund.
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Probir Roy served as the chairman of the Physics Graduate School from 1992 to 1997 and the Department of Theoretical Physics from 1997 to 2002, both based at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.
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Probir Roy served as the vice-president of the Indian Physical Society in 1996 and presided the society in 2002.
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Probir Roy delivered the Meghnad Saha award oration of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science in 1997 and received the elected fellowship of the National Academy of Sciences, India in 2001.