Avadh Bhatia

Avadh Behari Bhatia (1921–September 27, 1984[1]) was an Indian-Canadian physicist who studied “electronic transport theory and the study of diffraction of light by ultrasonic waves”[2] and whose research benefited condensed matter physicists and astrophysicists.[3]

Education and early career

Batia was born in India in 1921. He studied at the Universities of Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh and the University of Liverpool, where he met his second wife[4] (under Herbert Fröhlich) in the UK. The couple were married in Rajasthan, India , and lived in Gujarat for two years before Dr. Bhatia went to work at the University of Edinburgh under Max Born.[5]

Career in Canada

His immigration to Canada was made possible by a fellowship from the National Research Council.[2]

Bhatia joined the University of Alberta in 1955 and was director of the Theoretical Physics Institute there from 1964 to 1969.[6]

He wrote in a chapter in Principles of Optics on the diffraction of light by ultrasonic waves[6] and his book Ultrasonic Absorption was published by Oxford University Press in 1967.[1] He co-authored Mechanics of Deformable Media with R.N. Singh. Some of his publications are as A.B. Bhatia.

Personal life

Bhatia’s second wife, Helen Forrester, was a British-born Canadian novelist and memoirist. They met in Liverpool. They had one son, Robert Bhatia. Robert wrote a book about his parents and their relationship called Passage Across the Mersey (2017).[5]

Death

Bhatia died after a “long illness” and is buried in Saint Anthony Cemetery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.[7]

References
  1. Razavy, M.; Woods, S. B. (1985-02-01). "Avadh Behari Bhatia". Physics Today. 38 (2): 96–97. doi:10.1063/1.2814467. ISSN 0031-9228. Archived from the original on 2022-09-14. Retrieved 2022-08-12.
  2. "Bhatia, Avadh Behari - Alberta On Record". albertaonrecord.ca. Archived from the original on 2022-08-12. Retrieved 2022-08-12.
  3. "Six degrees of scientific excellence". www.ualberta.ca. Archived from the original on 2020-07-28. Retrieved 2022-08-12.
  4. "June Bhatia Obituary". Edmonton Journal.
  5. Thorpe, Vanessa (2017-01-07). "How true love led Helen Forrester to leave Mersey for Indian exile". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 2022-08-12. Retrieved 2022-08-12.
  6. "Bhatia, Avadh Behari • 1921–1984". The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 77 (2): 765–766. 1985-02-01. doi:10.1121/1.392355. ISSN 0001-4966. Archived from the original on 2022-09-14. Retrieved 2022-08-12.
  7. "Bhatia - myheritage.com". www.myheritage.com. Archived from the original on 2022-08-12. Retrieved 2022-08-12.
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