Kasturi Lal Chopra
| Kasturi Lal Chopra | |
|---|---|
| Born |
July 31, 1933 Chahal Kalan, Nawanshahr, Punjab, India |
| Occupation | Material physicist Academic |
| Years active | Since 1957 |
| Known for | Nanoscience Thin film technology |
| Spouse(s) | Asha Suri |
| Children | Three children |
| Parent(s) | Jagat Chopra Chanan Chopra |
| Awards |
Padma Shri Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize INSA P. C. Mahalanobis Medal INSA Aryabhatta Medal Om Prakash Bhasin Award UGC Bhabha Award FICCI Award MRSI Distinguished Materials Scientist of the Year Award Kennecott Copper Corporation Patent Award IVS Distinguished Vacuum Scientist Award SESI Lifetime Achievement Award ISME Distinguished Engineering Educator Award IITD Freedom of the Institute Award IITP Distinguished Academician Award |
Kasturi Lal Chopra (born 1933) is an Indian material physicist and a former director of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He is the founder of the Thin Film Laboratory at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and the Microscience Laboratory at IIT, Kharagpur and holds several US and Indian patents for his research findings. Author of a number of books on thin film technology, Chopra is a recipient of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, the highest Indian award in the science and technology categories. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 2008, for his contributions to science and engineering.
K. L. Chopra, born on 31 July 1933 at Chahal Kalan of the Nawanshahr district of the Indian state of Punjab to Jagat–Chanan Chopra couple, graduated with honors in science from the University of Delhi in 1952 and followed it up with a master's degree from the same university in 1954. He pursued his doctoral studies at the University of British Columbia on a fellowship and secured his PhD in low temperature physics in 1957. Continuing his stay in the North America, he served as a defence research fellow at the Royal Military College of Canada (1957–59) and as a staff scientist at Philco-Ford Scientific Laboratory (1962–64) and Ledgemont Laboratory of Kennecott Copper Corporation (1964–70), during which time he also took up academic positions as an adjunct professor at Northeastern University and as a visiting professor at Cornell University. Concurrently, he served as a consultant to IBM, Westinghouse and ARCO and had a short stint at Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin (1959–62) in between, as their fellow. Returning to India, he was appointed as a senior professor of solid state physics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1970 where he served till 1987, holding positions such as that of the Head of Department of Physics (1970-73), Dean of the Faculty of Science (1973-74), Chair and Dean Industrial Research and Development (1975-76), Dean of the Post Graduate Studies and Research (1976-79), Head of the Centre for Energy Studies (1983-85), Senior Professor of Physics and Head of the Thin Film Solid State Technology Laboratory and the Dean of Industrial Research and Development (1985-87) till his superannuation in 1987.
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