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Nilendra Ganesh Deshpande

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Nilendra Deshpande
Professor Emeritus
Born1938 (age 85–86)
Karachi, Pakistan
Other names"Desh"
CitizenshipAmerican
ChildrenTwo sons
Academic background
Alma materPresidency College
University of Pennsylvania
Academic work
DisciplinePhysics
InstitutionsNorthwestern University
University of Texas at Austin
University of Oregon
Main interestsHigh energy particle physics theory

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

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Deshpande was born in 1938 in Karachi, Pakistan.[1] He studied at Presidency College in Madras, India, from 1954 to 1960.[2] In 1960 he married Kanchanmala Karnik. They moved to the United States in 1962, and they had two sons.[3]

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.[4]

Career

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Deshpande was on the faculty at Northwestern University from 1967 to 1973, and the University of Texas at Austin from 1973 to 1975.[2] He joined the faculty at the University of Oregon in 1975, where is research has included weak interaction phenomenology, including models beyond the Standard Model, the Higgs boson, as well as CP violation and phenomenology of the B Meson.[5]

At Oregon, Deshpande has served as physics department head and also has served as associate dean for the Sciences.[5]

Selected publications

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Awards, honors

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  • 1981-1986: Outstanding Junior Investigator, United States Department of Energy.
  • 1987: Fellow of the American Physical Society, cited "For numerous contributions to electro-weak phenomenology, especially CP violation, one loop flavor changing processes and properties and mass limits of new gauge bosons from grand unification."[6]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "U.S., Naturalization Records 1865-1991". www.ancestry.com. 1989. Retrieved July 18, 2021.
  2. ^ a b ORCID. "Nilendra Deshpande (0000-0002-8016-6136)". orcid.org. Retrieved July 18, 2021.
  3. ^ "Kanchan Deshpande". The Register Guard. July 17, 2021. Retrieved July 17, 2021.
  4. ^ "Nilendra G. Deshpande, INSPIRE". inspirehep.net. Retrieved July 18, 2021.
  5. ^ a b Csonka, Paul L. (March 20, 2016). "History of the Physics Department" (PDF). Retrieved July 17, 2021.
  6. ^ "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org. Retrieved July 17, 2021.