Nilendra Ganesh Deshpande

Nilendra Ganesh Deshpande (born 1938) is an American theoretical high-energy physicist and professor emeritus at the University of Oregon. His interests include theories of electroweak interactions, grand unification, and neutrino physics.

Early life and education Deshpande was born in 1938 in Karachi, Pakistan. He studied at Presidency College in Madras, India, from 1954 to 1960. In 1960 he married Kanchanmala Karnik. They moved to the United States in 1962, and they had two sons.

Deshpande earned a Ph.D. in 1965 at the University of Pennsylvania, with his dissertation, Compositeness Conditions and Broken Symmetry in a Model Field Theory, advised by Sidney A. Bludman.

Career Deshpande was on the faculty at Northwestern University from 1967 to 1973, and the University of Texas at Austin from 1973 to 1975.

At Oregon, Deshpande has served as physics department head and also has served as associate dean for the Sciences.