Rabindra Mohapatra, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Rabindra Mohapatra

Indian physicist

Date of Birth: 01-Sep-1944

Place of Birth: Mayurbhanj district, Odisha, India

Profession: physicist, university teacher

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Rabindra Mohapatra

  • Rabindra Nath Mohapatra (born 1 September 1944) is an Indian American theoretical physicist, known for his work on the seesaw mechanism in neutrino physics. Mohapatra was born in the small village Musagadia in Mayurbhanj State.
  • He studied at Utkal University in Bhubaneswar (bachelor's degree 1964) and the University of Delhi (master's degree 1966).
  • In 1969 he earned his PhD under Robert Marshak at the University of Rochester.
  • Subsequently he was a post-doc at Stony Brook University and at the University of Maryland.
  • In 1974 he became an assistant professor and in 1976 associate professor at City College of CUNY under Bunji Sakita.
  • In the academic year 1980/1 he was a visiting professor at Max Planck Institute for Physics.
  • Since 1983 he has been a professor at the University of Maryland.
  • He was a visiting professor at CERN (1976, 1981, 1985), at SLAC, at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
  • From 2005 to 2007 he was a visiting professor at TU München. Mohapatra works on GUTs, unified theories of elementary particles, and neutrino physics.
  • In particular he, with G.
  • Senjanovic, developed in the 1970s left-right symmetric unified theories (which are then spontaneously broken to the observed theories of electroweak interactions with parity violation.) with prediction of a neutrino mass. In 1980/81 Mohapatra was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and in 2005 he received the Humboldt Prize.
  • In 2009 he received an honorary doctorate from North Orissa University in India (2009).
  • Since 1987 he has been a member of the Indian Academy of Sciences.

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