Atul Gurtu

Atul Gurtu
Gurtu at TIFR on 17 September 2013
Born (1946-01-16) 16 January 1946
Lahore, Punjab, British India
EducationThe Lawrence School
Alma materPanjab University
Known forHis work in experimental high energy physics
Spouse(s)Promila Bawa (1971-2006) (her death)
Suhasini Mulay (2011 - present)
ChildrenAshish (1974-1991)
Scientific career
FieldsHigh energy physics (Particle physics)
InstitutionsKing Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Thesis (1971)

Atul Gurtu (born 16 January 1946) is an Indian high energy physicist. He joined the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in 1971, and retired in 2011 as a senior professor, after a career spanning four decades in particle physics research.[1]

Early life

Gurtu was born in Lahore, in the Punjab Province of British India, into a Kashmiri family on 16 January 1946.[2]

During the Partition of India in 1947, Gurtu's family moved from West Punjab (which became a part of the newly-formed Dominion of Pakistan) to the newly formed Dominion of India, settling in a part of East Punjab which later became Himachal Pradesh.

Gurtu studied at the Auckland House in Shimla, and later at the Lawrence School Sanawar in Kasauli. He then attended Panjab University in Chandigarh, and thereafter joined the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in Bombay in 1969.[3]

Career

Gurtu is a particle physics researcher. He participated in numerous experimental projects in collaboration with CERN, Geneva, from 1969 to 2011, as part of high energy physics group at TIFR. From 2003 to 2011, he led a 70-member Indian team which participated in CERN experiment of first proton run at the Large Hadron Collider, known as "mini Big Bang". From 2011-12 he was Distinguished Professor at the King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Currently (from March 2018) he is Eminent Scholar at Kyung Hee University, South Korea.[1][3][4]

Personal life

He married Promila Bawa in 1971. In 1974, they had their first (and only) child Ashish, who was differently abled and died in 1991. His wife died in 2006.[5] In January 2011, he married National Film Award winning actress Suhasini Mulay, whom he met on Facebook.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b "Faces and Places:Atul Gurtu retires from the Tata Institute". CERN Courier. 6 June 2011. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
  2. ^ a b Shah, Kunal M Shah (11 March 2011). "Suhasini Mulay ties the knot at 60". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 15 May 2012.
  3. ^ a b Nishat Bari (10 September 2011). "Back to Beginnings: Atul Gurtu". India Today.
  4. ^ "TIFR, part of atom experiment, celebratesV Shoba : New Delhi, Wed". The Indian Express. 31 March 2010. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
  5. ^ Google profile
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