S. K. Joshi | |
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| Born | (1935-06-06)June 6, 1935 |
| Died | May 15, 2020(2020-05-15) (aged 84) Gurgaon, India |
| Alma mater | Allahabad University |
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| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Allahabad University University of California Riverside IIT Roorkee (formerlyUniversity of Roorkee) National Physical Laboratory CSIR |
| Doctoral advisor | Kedareswar Banerjee |
Prof.Shri Krishna Joshi (6 June 1935 – 15 May 2020) was an Indianphysicist. He was born on 6 June 1935 in the village of Anarpa inKumaun,Uttarakhand, India.[1]
Joshi received his Ph.D. in physics fromAllahabad University in 1962. Joshi's broad areas of interest arecondensed matter andcollision processes. His early research was in the study ofphonons in metals and insulators. He later studied electronic states in disordered systems andelectron correlation in narrow band solids. He has also worked onSurface states andSegregation in materials. Joshi conducted studies on excitation andionization processes in atoms, ions, and molecules. His research interests lie in strongly correlated electron systems, such ashigh temperature superconductors, and also innanotechnology, especially electron transport inquantum dots andnanotubes.
Joshi supervised the Ph.D. theses of twenty scholars and has published more than 190 research papers. He was a Professor of Physics at theIndian Institute of Technology, Roorkee from 1967 to 1986. He was the Director of theNational Physical Laboratory from 1986 to 1991. In 1991, he was appointed the Director General of the IndianCouncil of Scientific and Industrial Research. After retiring in 1995, he was awarded the Sarabhai Research Professorship in Physics and worked on condensed matter theory at the National Physical Laboratory inNew Delhi.[2]
He was awarded a D.Sc.honoris causa fromKumaun University in 1994, fromKanpur University in 1995,Benaras Hindu University in 1996, and theUniversity of Burdwan in 2005.
He was elected Fellow of theIndian National Science Academy in 1974. He was the Secretary of the Academy from 1983 to 1986 and its Foreign Secretary from 1989 to 1992. He was elected President of the INSA in 1993. He has been a Fellow of theIndian Academy of Sciences since 1974, and was vice president from 1989 to 1991. Joshi was president of the Indian Physics Association from 1989 to 1990. He was president of the Materials Research Society of India. Joshi is a Fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences, and a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.[6] In 2019, he inaugurated, with colleagues, the Aryabhatt Auditorium at the “Prof. Rajendra Singh (Rajju Bhaiya) Institute of Physical Sciences for Study and Research" at the Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University of Jaunpur[7]
• A Science Center has been named after S. K. Joshi in his remembrance at Devasthal, ARIES (Aryabhatta Research Institute Of Observational Sciences). It was inaugurated by former ISRO Chairman Dr A. S. Kiran Kumar.
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