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Anant Vishnu Narlikar is a scientist working in experimental superconductivity and superconducting materials. Narlikar is also a Visiting Scientist at the Applied Superconductivity and Cryoscience Division, Department of Material Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.
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Biography
Narlikar obtained his BSc and MSc from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. He was awarded the BHU Holkar Fellowship and Peterhouse Research Studentship to pursue his doctoral studies at the University of Cambridge. He received his PhD from Cambridge in 1965, where he was also awarded the Tait Memorial Prize at Peterhouse. His Ph.D. thesis on "Superconductivity in Niobium and Niobium Alloys" (Cambridge University, 1965) was one of the first doctoral theses written on Type-II superconductors in UK.
After four years of post-doctoral research in the UK, he returned to India to conduct pioneering research in the field of superconductivity. He established the first research group dealing with Superconducting Materials in India in 1973 at the National Physical Laboratory. He has also been a pioneer in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology, and was the first scientist in India to use scanning tunneling microscopy to study nanostructures in superconductors from 1989 onwards. He worked extensively with SPM (STM/STS/AFM) technique for nanostructure investigation of high Tc superconductors, fullerene based compounds as well as various borocarbides and magnesium diboride.
He is married to the artist and author Dr Aruna Narlikar. Their only child is Amrita Narlikar, a political economist at the University of Cambridge.
Career
Narlikar is a Senior Scientist and Fellow of Indian National Science Academy. He is based at the UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research, University Campus, Indore, India. He is also a Visiting Scientist at the Applied Superconductivity and Cryoscience Group, of the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge. He is the author or editor of sixty scholarly books, and over 300 papers in international refereed journals.
Narlikar received the prestigious Sc.D. degree from the University of Cambridge (the highest degree awarded by the University for distinguished research in science).
In India, he has been awarded numerous academic distinctions including the FIE Foundation Award for Science & Technology, 2000; Homi Jehangir Bhabha Medal 1996 of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA); A.N. Khosla Gold Medal and National Award, 1994; MRSI (India) Superconductivity Award, 1990; Chatterjee Gold Medal, 1977 of Indian Cryogenics Council. Besides INSA, Anant Narlikar is a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences (Bangalore) and National Academy of Sciences, India (Allahabad). Formerly, he was also a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK) and the Institution of Metallurgists (UK).