Rabindra Mohapatra

Rabindra Nath Mohapatra ( born 1945 ) is an Indian theoretical physicist.

Mohapatra studied at the Utkal University, Bhubaneswar ( bachelor's degree 1964) and the University of Delhi ( master's degree, 1966). In 1969 he received his doctorate with Robert Marshak at the University of Rochester. After that, he was a post-doc at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and the University of Maryland. In 1974 he became assistant professor in 1976 and associate professor at the City College of the City University of New York ( CUNY ) at Bunji Sakita. 1980/1 he was a visiting professor at the Max Planck Institute for Physics. Since 1983 he is professor at the University of Maryland. He has been a visiting scientist at CERN (1976, 1981, 1985), at SLAC, the Los Alamos National Laboratory and at Brookhaven National Laboratory. 2005 to 2007 he was a visiting professor at the Technical University of Munich.

Mohapatra dealt with GUTs, unified theories of elementary particles and neutrino physics. In particular, he studied with G. Senjanovic in the 1970s, left-right symmetric unified theories (which are then broken spontaneously to the observed theories of the electroweak interaction with parity violation ), with prediction of a neutrino mass.

1980/81 he was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and in 2005 he received the Humboldt Research Award. He holds honorary doctorates from the North Orissa University, India ( 2009). Since 1987 he is member of the Indian Academy of Sciences.

Writings

• Unification and Supersymmetry - the frontiers of quark- lepton physics. Springer 1986, 1991, 3rd edition 2003, ISBN 0387955348
• With Palash Pal: Massive Neutrinos in Physics and Astrophysics. World Scientific, 1991, 1998, 3rd edition 2004
• Editor with C. Lai: Selected Papers on gauge theories and fundamental interactions. World Scientific 1981