Nimai Mukhopadhyay
Born(1944-01-17)January 17, 1944
Maharampur, India
DiedMay 15, 2000(2000-05-15) (aged 56)
Loudonville, New York
Alma mater
Known forMeson production and Delta baryons
Awards1997 Humboldt Prize
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions

Nimai Mukhopadhyay (January 17, 1944 – May 15, 2000) was a professor of physics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a theoretical physicist, specializing in the nuclear aspects of the weak interactions.[1][2]

During the early 1980s and into the mid-1990s, Nimai's research advanced the fields of photoproduction and electroproduction of baryon resonances involving pion and eta decay. His work included discoveries on the properties of the Phi_meson,[3] Pion scattering,[4] the theory of eta photo production and electroproduction,[5] and approaches to perturbative results in the N-Delta Transition.[6]

Early life and education

Mukhopadhyay was born on 17 January 1942 in Maharampur (near city of Kolkatta), West Bengal, India. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from University of Calcutta, India in 1963 and S.M. and PhD in theoretical nuclear physics from University of Chicago in 1968.[1][2]

Career and Research

From 1972 to 1981, Mukhopadhyay did research at University of Maryland, College Park, and the Paul Scherrer Institute (formerly Swiss Institute of Nuclear Research) in Villigen. In 1981, Mukhopadhyay joined Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as professor in the Physics Department and helped establish theoretical program complimenting to the existing experimental program in photonuclear physics.[1][2]

In 1993, he was elected fellow of the American Physical Society. In 1997, Mukhopadhyay was awarded the Humboldt Senior Scientist Prize for his work.[1][2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 MacFarlane, Malcolm H.; Sperber, Daniel; Stoler, Paul (January 12, 2007). "Nimai Chad Mukhopadhyay". Physics Today. 53 (11): 73. doi:10.1063/1.1333306. ISSN 0031-9228.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "The Daily Gazette - Obituaries (Google News Archive Search)". news.google.com. May 17, 2000. Retrieved May 16, 2020.
  3. ↑ "Sensitivity to properties of the phi-meson in the nucleon structure in the chiral solition model" (PDF). Retrieved May 15, 2020.
  4. ↑ Burkert, V. (2001). Pion Production and Compton Scattering. World Scientific. ISBN 9789810244996. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
  5. ↑ "INSPIRE". inspirehep.net. Retrieved May 16, 2020.
  6. ↑ Carlson, Carl E.; Mukhopadhyay, Nimai C. (September 28, 1998). "Approach to Perturbative Results in the N-Delta Transition". Physical Review Letters. 81 (13): 2646–2649. arXiv:hep-ph/9804356. Bibcode:1998PhRvL..81.2646C. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.2646. ISSN 0031-9007. S2CID 118373704.


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