Piara Singh Gill, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Piara Singh Gill

Indian physicist

Date of Birth: 28-Oct-1911

Place of Birth: Hoshiarpur District, Punjab, India

Date of Death: 23-Mar-2002

Profession: physicist, nuclear physicist

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Piara Singh Gill (28 October 1911 – 23 March 2002) was an Indian nuclear physicist who was a pioneer in cosmic ray nuclear physics and worked on the American Manhattan project.
He was the first Director of Central Scientific Instruments Organisation (CSIO) of India.
He was research fellow of University of Chicago (1940).
He was research Professorship fellow of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) (1947), Officer-on-Special Duty (OSD) with the Atomic Energy Commission in New Delhi.
Professor and head of the Department of Physics at Aligarh University (1949), Director of Central Scientific Instruments Organization (CSIO) (1959) and Professor Emeritus at Punjab Agricultural University (1971).