Krityunjai Prasad Sinha

Krityunjai Prasad Sinha (5 July 1929 – 23 January 2023) was an Indian theoretical physicist and an emeritus professor at the Indian Institute of Science. Known for his research in solid-state physics and cosmology, Sinha was elected a fellow of all the three major Indian science academies – the Indian National Science Academy, the Indian Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Sciences, India. In 1974, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest honors in Indian science, in recognition of his contributions to the field of physical sciences.

Biography

Born in Akhtiyarpur, in the Indian state of Bihar, KP Sinha passed his matriculation examination in 1944 and completed the intermediate studies in 1946 before joining Allahabad University to earn a BSc in 1948. Subsequently, on completion of his MSc in 1950 from the same institution, he enrolled at Savitribai Phule Pune University for his doctoral studies under the guidance of GI Finch and secured a PhD in solid state physics in 1956. Moving to the UK, Sinha did his post-doctoral work at the laboratory of Maurice Henry Lecorney Pryce during 1957–59, and his studies there in theoretical physics earned him a second PhD from the University of Bristol in 1965. lived in Dollars Colony, in Bengaluru. He died there on 23 January 2023, at the age of 93.

Legacy

Sinha's theoretical work covered various aspects of solid state physics and he has made significant contributions in the field of crystal magnetism. His early work during his doctoral and post-doctoral days was based on condensed matter theory, semiconductors, quantum well, Cold Fusion, phonons, and photon-induced effects in solids. and also developed a statistical theory on the origin of ferroelectricity and structural phase transitions induced by cooperative Jahn-Teller effect; his work on the magnetism is described in one of his books. The luminescence efficiency of solids, Ricci scalar curvature, super strong gravity, singularity free cosmology, and low energy nuclear reactions are some other areas he has worked on. and online article repositories such as Google Scholar and ResearchGate have listed many of them. He has published 6 books which included Foundry Technology, Interactions in magnetically ordered solids, Aspects of Gravitational Interactions, High Temperature Superconductivity: Current Results and Novel Mechanisms and Magnetic superconductors: recent developments, and has contributed chapters to books published by others. His work has also drawn citations from a number of authors. and he has supervised the doctoral and post doctoral studies of 45 scholars. and he was selected as a national professor by the University Grants Commission of India in 1972, a post he held for one year. Sinha received the Award for excellence in Physics of Maharishi University of Management in 1975 and H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory of University of Bristol honored him with the Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1977. and 1982 respectively. Two years later, Sinha received the Platinum Jubilee Distinguished Alumnus Award of the Indian Institute of Science. World Who's Who in Science from Antiquity to the Present has been featuring Sinha since its 1976–77 edition.

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