Avadh Bhatia

Avadh Behari Bhatia (1921–September 27, 1984 ) was an Indian-Canadian physicist who studied electronic transport theory and diffraction of light by ultrasonic waves. His research benefited the fields of condensed matter physics and astrophysics.

Education and early career Bhatia was born in India in 1921. He studied at the Universities of Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh and the University of Liverpool, where he met his second wife (under Herbert Fröhlich) in the UK. The couple were married in Rajasthan, India and lived in Gujarat for two years before Dr. Bhatia went to work at the University of Edinburgh under Max Born.

He wrote in a chapter in Principles of Optics on the diffraction of light by ultrasonic waves Death Bhatia died after a long-term illness in 1985 and is buried in Saint Anthony Cemetery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.