Deepak Dhar

Quick Facts

Full Name	Deepak Dhar
Occupation	Physicist
Date Of Birth	Oct 30, 1951(1951-10-30)
Age	73
Birthplace	Bela Pratapgarh
Country	India
Birth City	Uttar Pradesh
Horoscope	Libra

Deepak Dhar Biography

Deepak Dhar is one of the most popular and richest Physicist who was born on October 30, 1951 in Bela Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh, India. Born on the 30th of October, 1951 in Pratapgarh located in north Indian state Uttar Pradesh to Murli Dhar-Rama Gupta couple. Deepak Dhar graduated in science at the University of Allahabad in the year 1970. He then earned the master’s degree in physics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1972. After moving to the US and enrolled in his doctoral studies under supervision under the direction of Jon Mathews at California Institute of Technology in 1978. After receiving the PhD at the end of 1978 he returned to India to begin his career as research fellow at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in the same year. In the course of two years study and teaching, he was promoted to an full-time fellow in the year 1981 and remained in the position until 1986 when he promoted to a reader. Prior to his retirement from regular work, he had held several roles at TIFR including Associate Professor (1991) as well as professor grade from G up to G to (1995-2008). Between 1995 and 2008, he took an sabbatical of one year in the University of Paris as a visiting scientist from 1984 to 1985) as well as a month-long stay at the Isaac Newton Institute in May 2006 as an Rothschild Professor. After retirement, he maintains his relationship with TIFR as an outstanding professor at the institute. He also is an outstanding visiting faculty member for the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune.

Dhar is the associate editor for the Journal of Statistical Physics, which is a Springer publication from 2005, where Dhar was a member of the editorial board for two previous periods (1993-96 as well as 1999-2002). He is an editor-in-chief for The Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Physics (IJPAP) of the National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources (NISCAIR) and was a former editorial advisor of Physica A, an Elsevier science journal. He has been involved with journals like Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, Physical Review E and Pramana as an editor’s board member. He was an active participant in the Commission on Statistical Physics of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics from 1992 until

1995. He is also a part of the committee for program development for the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences. He has also given invited speeches , and the lecture on the Strange Relationship Between Physics as well as Mathematics, in the University of Mumbai on 19 October 2016 was among the lectures.

Dhar was appointed Fellow by the Indian Academy of Sciences in 1990, and is now an active council member. He was elected as a member of the Indian National Science Academy on 1995 and in the National Academy of Sciences, India was elected as fellow in 1999. He was elected to the Fellowship from the World Academy of Sciences in 2006 and was then selected to receive the J. C. Bose National fellowship of the Science and Engineering Research Board in

2007. The term running to 2017.

Deepak Dhar Net Worth

Deepak Dhar is one of the richest Physicist from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Deepak Dhar 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Deepak Dhar (born 30 October 1951) is an Indian theoretical physicist who is a distinguished professor in the department of physics at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune. His research is renowned for its work in stochastic processes and statistical physics, Dhar is an elected as a fellow of the three leading Indian science academies, namely the Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian National Science Academy and National Academy of Sciences, India and the president of The World Academy of Sciences. In 2004, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research is the highest organization for the Government of India for scientific research and development, conferred on Dhar Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Science and Technology, one of the top Indian science prizes, in recognition of his contribution to the physical sciences in the year 1991.

In his time during his time at Caltech, Dhar held two institution-sponsored fellowships: E. P. Anthony fellowship (1972-73) and R. P. Feynman fellowship (1974-76). He was awarded the Young Scientist Medal of the Indian National Science Academy in 1983. It was in 1983 that the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research conferred him with the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize one of the most prestigious Indian science prizes in 1991. The following year, the International Centre for Theoretical Physics chose him for awarding the 1993 J. Robert Schrieffer Prize. INSA recognized him again in 2001 by awarding him the Satyendranath Bose Medal and he was awarded the TWAS Prize of The World Academy of Sciences in 2002. He also is a beneficiary of the top alumni prize from The Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

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Who become the first Indian selected for Boltzmann Medal?

Why in News? Recently, the prestigious Boltzmann Medal for the year 2022 has been awarded to Professor Deepak Dhar. He became the first Indian to win this award and shared the award with American scientist John Hopfield.

Who gives Boltzmann Medal?

The Boltzmann Medal is awarded once every three years by the Commission on Statistical Physics of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics , during the STATPHYS conference.

Who will be conferred the prestigious Boltzmann Medal 2022?

Prof. Deepak Dhar , Distinguished Visiting Professor and NASI-Senior Scientist in the Physics department at IISER Pune, has been selected to receive the prestigious Boltzmann Medal for 2022. He is one of the two physicists selected for the award, the second awardee being Prof. John Hopfield from Princeton University.

In which field Boltzmann Medal is given?

The Boltzmann Medal, which has been instituted by C3 (Commission on Statistical Physics) of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), is given out once in three years to honour outstanding achievements in statistical physics.

Is a physicist a scientist?

A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe.