Biography:Nilendra Ganesh Deshpande

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Short description: American theoretical physicist and academic
Nilendra Deshpande

Professor Emeritus
Born
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

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

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

Awards, honors

  • 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]

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