Jogesh Pati

Jogesh Chandra Pati ( born April 3, 1937 in Baripada, Orissa ) is an Indian- American theoretical physicist who deals with elementary particle physics.

Pati studied at Ravenshaw College, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar (Bachelor 1955) and the Delhi University, where in 1957 he received his master's degree. Then he went to the USA where he received his doctorate in 1961 at the University of Maryland at College Park. Then he was there research assistant, 1960-1962 Richard Tolman Postdoctoral Fellow at Caltech and 1962/3 at the Institute for Advanced Study. In 1963 he became assistant professor, associate professor in 1967 and in 1973 professor at the University of Maryland, since 2005 as Professor Emeritus. He was a visiting scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory in the 1960s, at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (1966 /7), at CERN, the International Centre for Theoretical Physics ( ICTP ) in Trieste ( he heads there also regular summer schools ) at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center ( SLAC ) in Stanford, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Imperial College London, the Yukawa Institute in Kyoto, in Vienna (1988) and New Delhi.

Pati was in collaboration with Abdus Salam, a pioneer in the development of the Grand Unified Theory (GUT). The Pati -Salam model from 1974 suggested an association with the gauge group SU ( 4) × SU (2) L × SU (2 ) R ( SU ( n ) is the special unitary group in n dimensions ), the color - degrees of freedom of quantum chromodynamics ( QCD) in the SU sitting (4 ) part and the two SU (2) groups of left-right symmetry implement. In particular, the theory predicts a right-handed neutrino, as it is also expected today due to the observation of neutrino oscillations.

1979/80 he was a Guggenheim Fellow. In 2000 he was awarded with Howard Georgi and Helen Quinn, the Dirac Medal ( ICTP ). He is a member of the Indian Academy of Sciences.