Professor Satya Prakash
Department of Physics
Panjab University, Chandigarh-160014 (India)
Tel. (91-172) 2534451 (O) 4627503 (R)
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Prof. Satya Prakash was born to his parents mother Smt. Kalavati Devi and father Shri Shankar Lal Tiwari on May 30, 1941 in village Barauli (Mainpuri) in Uttar Pradesh. He got his primary education in the village school and higher secondary education in the town Bhongaon and obtained B.Sc. degree from Agra College and M.Sc. degree from Allahabad University in the year 1964. He had the bright academic record with merit scholarship throughout. He got junior research fellowship in Allahbad University in 1964 and later senior research fellowship at University of Roorkee and got D.Phil. degree from Allahabad University in 1970 on lattice dynamics of metals under supervision of Prof.
S.K.Joshi.
He got married to Mrs. Mira Tiwari in May 1971 and blessed with son Deepankar and daughter Hema. Now both of them are well settled in their professions and family lives.
Prof. Prakash joined as lecturer in physics in Panjabi University Patiala in April 1971 and later moved to Department of Physics in Panjab University, Chandigarh in Feb. 1972. He was promoted to Reader in 1979 and as Professor of Solid State Physics in 1987. He was Dean, Faculty of Science (1999-2001) and strengthened research dynamics in the university and as Chairman, Department of Physics (2001-02) he contributed for better laboratory teaching and infrastructure for the students. His students still remember him for his courses on solid state physics and many body theories. As member of national and international physics committees, his contribution has been original and significant.
He joined the position of Vice Chancellor of Jiwaji University, Gwalior (M.P.) in Jan. 2002 and contributed to the multidimensional growth of the university in the terrain of Chambal Ghati. The then Prime Minister of India, Shri Atal Bihari Vajpai remarked that “you have put the pen in the fingers of young hands that were ready to hold guns”. The then President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam remarked the university as “great institute”.
Prof. Prakash has been President of Indian Association of Physics Teachers. He contributed to upgrade the under graduate physics teaching and expressed his deep concern about science teaching in the country in his volume “Vision for Science Education” (Allied Publishers New Delhi 2014).
Prof. Satya Prakash collaborated with leading laboratories to enrich research activities in the university. He was Research Associate at CNRS, Orsay; Visiting Professor at Université Paris XI, VI and ESPCI, Paris in France, He was Research Fellow at Australian National University, Canberra and Visiting Professor at University of Duisburg, Germany and Visiting Scientist at ICTP Trieste, Italy, AERE Harwell, H.H.Wills Laboratory, Bristol, Universities of London, and Warwick in UK and Max-Plank Institute at Stuttgart and Julich in Germany. He delivered invited lectures at Bell Lab. New Jersey, Oak Ridge and Brookhaven National Laboratories, Universities of New York at Stony Brook and Virginia Charlottesville in USA, Chulalorkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, and National University Singapore in addition to several research institutes and universities in the country.
He has been recipient of several awards including Burse Joliot Curie, France, Higher Education and Development Award, New Delhi, Lifetime Achievement Award ITDC New Delhi and Membership, Kendriya Hindi Samiti, Rajbhasha Vibhag, Govt. of India.
He is member of National academy of Sciences India, His biography is included in
“Marque,s Who,s Who”, Men of Achievement Award”, “ Five hundred leaders of the World” and other publications of Biographical Center London and American Biographical Institution. He was referee of Phys. Rev., Phys. Rev. Letters and Prmana.
Prof. Prakash supervised fifteen PhD theses, ten research projcts and some of his students are working in leading research institutions in the country and abroad. He wrote 5 review articles and nearly 200 original research papers in internationally reputed journals. He authored a comprehensive volume on “Dynamics of Transition Metals and Alloys” (Nova Sc.. Pub. Inc. New York. 1998) and contributed and edited the volumes:”Advances in Statistical Physics of Solids and Liquids” (John Wiley, New York 1990); “Disordered Materials”, (Narosa Pub., New Delhi, 2003).
Prof. Satya Prakash has made very specific contribution in the Physics of Transition Metals. He pioneered the ab-initio study of vibrational properties of transition metals, formulated screened breathing shell model for phonon spectra, proposed theory of dynamical spin and orbital susceptibilities, theory of impurity induced charge perturbation in transition metals, unified theory of electric field gradients for binary metallic alloys and quantum theory of atomic diffusion for localized and delocalized impurities in transition metals. His book “Dynamics of Transition Metals and Alloys”
is a scholarly contribution to the physics of transition metals.
He initiated molecular dynamics simulations to study nanoparticle formation for noble and transition metal clusters using embedded atom model potential and also investigated structural and vibrational disorders in titanium oxide nanoparticles. He used density functional tight-binding theory to study structural and thermodynamic properties of hydrogenated amorphous semiconductor, 3d-metal nanoclusters, spin magnetism of transition metal doped fullerene and binary graphite intercalated compounds.
Prof. Prakash was UGC Emeritus Fellow and presently engaged in in DST research project on nano materials in the Department of Physics, Panjab University.
