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AWARDS AND MEDALS
Government College, Ludhiana
Received First Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics,
English, General Knowledge and aggregate in the first year of college,
1964
Received First Prizes in Physics, Mathematics, English, aggregate
and Second prize in Chemistry in the second year of college, 1965
Received First Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and
aggregate in the third and final year of college, 1966
Name inscribed in the College Roll of Honor for Academic
Achievement, 1965 and 1966
This is from the First Year Prize ceremony. The politician is Mohan
Lal, the education minister. The audience is laughing because Mohan Lal
just
called me tinakaa raam Sandow. I do not know how many got the joke, but
they laughed anyway!
Panjab University, Chandigarh
Received the Panjab University Medal for ranking first among all
the students in the B.S. final examination, 1966
Received the Panjab University Medal for ranking first among all
the students in the B.S. Honors in Mathematics examination, 1966
Received Pandit Hem Raj Medal for ranking first among all the
students in the B.S. Mathematics Honors examination, 1966
Received First Prize in aggregate in the M.S. Honors in Physics
examination, 1968
Received the Panjab University Medal for ranking first among all
the students in the M.S. Honors in Physics examination, 1968
CONTRIBUTION TO KITTEL’S FAMOUS TEXTBOOK
When I was teaching Introductory Solid State Physics in India from
Kittel’s well-known textbook, I noticed an awkwardness in his treatment
of band theory. While he set up the general equations in the reciprocal
lattice space, he resorted to the usual coordinate space approach
in solving the Kronig-Penney model. I found that the general equations
could be used to solve this model in reciprocal space. This made the
presentation of band theory very natural. I published the results in
the American Journal of Physics; see paper 16. Professor Kittel has
included
my method in his famous textbook; see pp. 171-172 in the sixth edition.
Wiley
website for the famous text-book
Here is the letter from Kittel asking permission to include my work in
his text-book.
Here is the start of the calculation.
INCLUSION IN BIOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS
My biographical data has appeared in
Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering®
2000-2001, Millenium Edition
And
American Men and Women of Science
(New York, NY: Bowker)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS OF WORK IN BOOKS AND REVIEWS
Acknowledged by R. K. Pathria in his famous textbook on Statistical
Mechanics, 1972
J. F. Nagle and J. C. Bonner, in Annual Review of Physical
Chemistry , eds. B. S. Rabinovitch et al. (Annual Reviews Inc.,
Palo Alto, 1976) Vol. 27, p. 291
S.-K. Ma, Modern Theory of Critical Phenomena (Benjamin,
Reading, 1977)
M. E. Fisher and J.-H. Chen, in Phase Transitions
Cargèse 1980, eds. M. Lévy, J.-C. Le Guillou and J.
Zinn-Justin (Plenum, New York, 1982) p. 169
K. Binder, in Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena ,
eds. C. Domb and J. L. Lebowitz (Academic, New York, 1983) Vol. 8,
p. 1
M. N. Barber, in the Domb-Lebowitz series, Vol. 8, p. 145
Acknowledged by Kittel for using one of my papers in his famous
textbook on Solid State Physics, Sixth Edition, 1983, pp.
171-172
D. Chowdhury, Spin Glasses and other Frustrated Systems
(World Scientific, Singapore, 1986)
J. G. Brankov and D. M. Danchev, in Selected Topics in
Statistical Mechanics, eds. A. A. Logunov et al. (World Scientific,
Singapore, 1990) p. 325
V. Privman, in Finite-Size Scaling and Numerical Simulation
of Statistical Systems, ed. V. Privman (World Scientific,
Singapore, 1990) p. 1
D. Jasnow, p. 99; J. Rudnick, p. 141; K. K. Mon, p. 261 in
Privman, Finite-Size Scaling
K. Binder, in Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, eds.
H. L. Strauss et al. (Annual Reviews Inc., Palo Alto, 1992) Vol. 43,
p. 33
Acknowledged by R. K. Pathria in the second edition of
his classic textbook on Statistical Mechanics, 1996
P. Schewe and B. Stein, in the American Institute of Physics,
Physics New Update 259
Physics Update in Physics Today, p. 9 of the April 1996
issue
Science News in New Scientist, p. 17 of the issue of
March 2, 1996
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
American Physical Society; Divisions of Condensed Matter
Physics, History of Physics
