Biography
Education:
- Born in Bengal on January 1, 1909
- Early education at Hooghly Branch School
- B.Sc. (Physics Honours), Hooghly College
- M.Sc. in Applied Physics (Wireless specialization), University of Calcutta, 1931
Career:
- Lecturer, Signal Training Centre, Jabalpur
- Assistant Lecturer, Electrical Communication Engineering, Department of Applied Physics, Calcutta University
- Professional Assistant and later Assistant Meteorologist on the project “Investigations on the Direction of Arrival of Atmospherics,” jointly sponsored by the Radio Research Committee and the Department of Meteorology
- Joined the Indian Institute of Science in 1946 as Lecturer, Department of Electrical Technology
- Guest Worker, National Bureau of Standards, Washington, D.C., USA (1949–1951)
- Assistant Professor and later Professor, Department of Electrical Communication Engineering, IISc
- Established the Microwave Engineering Laboratory for B.E., M.E., and research programs at IISc
Research and Academic Contributions:
- Authored more than 100 research papers and nine unpublished project reports
- Seven reports formed part of the PL-480 Project titled “A Systematic Theoretical and Experimental Study of Modulated Surface Wave Structures”
- Prepared research reports on “Non-magnetic Mass Spectrometer” (1951) and “Direction of Arrival of Atmospherics” (1945)
- Supervised eight Ph.D. scholars in Microwave Engineering at IISc
Research Areas
- Microwave Engineering
- Radio Engineering and Electronics
- Applied Physics and Acoustics
- Atmospherics and Meteorology
- Non-magnetic Mass Spectrometry
- Dielectric Waveguides and Cavity Resonators
Awards and Honours
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Sir J. C. Bose’s Premium by the British Institution of Radio Engineers (1953) for the paper
“Microwave Cavity Resonators – Some Perturbation Effects and Their Applications.”
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Lord Mountbatten Premium and Sir J. C. Bose’s Premium (1965), jointly with Mrs. Rajeswari Chatterjee,
for the four-part review paper “Dielectric-Loaded Waveguides,” published by the British Institution of Radio Engineers.
- Fellow of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), New Delhi
