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Dr. Ajoy Ghatak
Born(1939-11-09)November 9, 1939
Lucknow
NationalityIndia
CitizenshipIndian
Alma materDelhi University
Cornell University
Known forResearch on photonics, fiber optics and education in India
AwardsSS 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
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsIndian Institute of Technology
Academic advisorsHans Bethe, Mark Nelkin
Notable studentsK. Thyagarajan, RK Varshney,B.P. Pal, Anurag Sharma, IC Goyal, GP Agrawal

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]

  • Ghatak, Ajoy (2010), Einstein And The Special Theory Of Relativity, ISBN 81-309-1478-6
  • Thyagarajan, K.; Ghatak, Ajoy (2010), Lasers: Fundamentals And Applications (2nd ed.), ISBN 1-4419-6441-X
  • Ghatak, Ajoy (2009), Optics (4th ed.), ISBN 0-07-338048-2
  • Ghatak, Ajoy (2009), Basic Quantum Mechanics (with CD), ISBN 0-230-63916-X
  • Lakshminarayanan, Vasudevan; Ghatak, Ajoy; Thyagarajan, K. (2001), Lagrangian Optics, ISBN 0-7923-7582-3
  • Ghatak, Ajoy; Thyagarajan, K. (1998), An Introduction To Fiber Optics, ISBN 0-521-57785-3
  • Ghatak, Ajoy (1996), Introduction To Quantum Mechanics, ISBN 0-333-92419-3
  • Ghatak, Ajoy; Thyagarajan, K. (1989), Optical Electronics, ISBN 0-521-30643-4
  • Eliezer, Shalom; Ghatak, Ajoy; Hora, Heinrich (1986), Fundamentals Of Equations Of State, ISBN 981-02-4833-4
  • Ghatak, Ajoy; Lokanathan, S. (1984), Quantum Mechanics: Theory And Applications, ISBN 9781403923417
  • Ghatak, Ajoy; Sodha, M. S. (1977), Inhomogeneous Optical Waveguides, ISBN 0-306-30916-5

References

  1. ^ Miranda House events (PDF), retrieved 8 November 2010
  2. ^ a b 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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