Asoke Nath Mitra

Biography

Asoke Nath Mitra, got his early education in Mathematics from Ramjas College, Delhi University. He obtained his PhD (1953) in Physics from Delhi University under the guidance of RC Majumdar. Subsequently he went to Cornell University, USA and worked under Freeman Dyson and Hans Bethe to obtain a second doctorate (1955). His areas of specialization are Theoretical Physics, Quantum Field Theory, Hadron and Quark Dynamics. On returning to India, he joined Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) as a Reader (1955). He was Visiting Professor of Physics, Indiana University (1962-63); Professor of Physics (1963-69), Senior Professor of Physics (1969-89), University of Delhi; Associate, Senior Associate and Honorary Associate of International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste (1967-83); Visiting Professor of Physics, University of Illinois at Chicago (1986-87); and INSA-Albert Einstein Research Professor (1989-94) at University of Delhi.

Research Interest

Quarks, Particles, Nuclei & Fields