Av Narlikar

Biography

Anant Vishnu Narlikar obtained BSc (1958) and MSc (1960) from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. After working for a year on crystal growth and imperfections with AR Verma at BHU, he moved to Cambridge University, UK (1961) from where he obtained PhD (1965). After four years of postdoctoral research on superconductivity, he returned to India (1969) as Professor and Head of Physics Department at Shivaji University, Kolhapur. He moved to Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Bombay (1972), and then to National Physical Laboratory (NPL), New Delhi (1973) where he carried out research on superconductivity for nearly 30 years. He was awarded ScD (1994) by Cambridge University. After his retirement from NPL (2000), he served as Lady Davis Visiting Professor in Israel, Wihuri Visiting Professor in Finland, Peterhouse Senior Visiting Fellow at Cambridge, Senior Visiting Fellow in Brazil and Visiting Professor at Peaking University in China. Presently he is INSA Senior Scientist at UDCSR, Indore.

Research Interest

Superconductivity and Nanostructures