Praveen Chaudhari
Praveen Chaudhari ( born November 30, 1937 in Ludhiana, Punjab, India, † January 13, 2010 in Briarcliff Manor, New York) was an Indian- American physicist in the field of materials science.
Life
In 1961 he acquired the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur his Bachelor with honors, and then went to the USA. In 1963 he became Master in 1966 and a doctor of physical metallurgy, both at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His work on the Irradiationseffekt in bismuth telluride was supervised by Michael Bever. Then he moved to the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, where he was director of the Physics Division in 1981. As Vice President of Science ( since 1982), he was responsible for all IBM research projects. During his term of office, IBM scientists won in two consecutive years, the Nobel Prize in Physics: 1986 Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer for the design of the scanning tunneling microscope and Johannes Georg Bednorz and Karl 1987 Alexander Müller for the discovery of superconductivity in ceramic materials. After 1991, Chaudhari devoted back to his research. In 2003 he became director of the Brookhaven National Laboratory for three years.
Chaudhari worked particularly in the field of the structure and properties of amorphous solids, he studied mechanical properties of thin films and crystalline solids, high temperature superconductors but also magnetic monopoles and neutrino mass experiments. He discovered and developed amorphous magnetic materials, which are the basis for Magneto Optical Disks. He has published more than 150 scientific papers and holds more than 20 patents.
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