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'''Rabindra Nath Mohapatra''' (born 1 September 1944<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=allYAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Mohapatra,+Rabindra%22+1944 | title=American Men & Women of Science | isbn=9781414433059 | publisher=Thomson/Gale | year=2009 | accessdate=18 November 2018 }}</ref>) is an [[Indian American]] [[theoretical physicist]], known for his work on the [[seesaw mechanism]] in [[neutrino physics]].<br />
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Mohapatra was born in the small village Musagadia in [[Mayurbhanj State]]. He studied at [[Utkal University]] in [[Bhubaneswar]] (bachelor's degree 1964) and the [[University of Delhi]] (master's degree 1966). In 1969 he earned his PhD under [[Robert Marshak]] at the [[University of Rochester]]. Subsequently he was a post-doc at [[Stony Brook University]] and at the [[University of Maryland]]. In 1974 he became an assistant professor and in 1976 associate professor at [[City College of New York|City College]] of [[City University of New York|CUNY]] under [[Bunji Sakita]]. In the academic year 1980/1 he was a visiting professor at [[Max Planck Institute for Physics]]. Since 1983 he has been a professor at the [[University of Maryland]]. He was a visiting professor at [[CERN]] (1976, 1981, 1985), at [[Stanford Linear Accelerator Center|SLAC]], at [[Los Alamos National Laboratory]], and at [[Brookhaven National Laboratory]]. From 2005 to 2007 he was a visiting professor at [[Technische Universität München|TU München]].<br />
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Mohapatra works on [[Grand Unified Theory|GUT]]s, unified theories of elementary particles, and neutrino physics. In particular he, with [[Goran Senjanović|G. Senjanovic]], developed in the 1970s left-right symmetric unified theories (which are then spontaneously broken to the observed theories of [[electroweak interaction]]s with [[parity violation]].)<ref>{{cite journal|author2=Mohapatra, R. N.|author=Senjanovic, G.|title=Exact Left-Right Symmetry and Spontaneous Violation of Parity|journal=Physical Review D|volume=12|year=1975|issue=5|pages=1512–1523|doi=10.1103/PhysRevD.12.1502|bibcode=1975PhRvD..12.1502S}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author=Mohapatra, R. N.|author2=Senjanovic, G.|title=Neutrino Mass and Spontaneous Parity Nonconservation|journal=Physical Review Letters|volume=44|year=1980|issue=14|pages=912–915|doi= 10.1103/PhysRevLett.44.912<br />
|bibcode = 1980PhRvL..44..912M}}</ref> with prediction of a neutrino mass.<br />
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In 1980/81 Mohapatra was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and in 2005 he received the [[Humboldt Prize]]. In 2009 he received an honorary doctorate from [[North Orissa University]] in India (2009). Since 1987 he has been a member of the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]].<br />
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==Works==<br />
*''Unification and Supersymmetry – the frontiers of Quark-Lepton Physics''. Springer 1986, 1991, 3rd edn. 2003, {{ISBN|0387955348}}<br />
* with Palash Pal: ''Massive Neutrinos in Physics and Astrophysics''. World Scientific, 1991, 1998, 3rd edn. 2004<br />
* As editor with C. Lai: ''Selected Papers on gauge theories and fundamental interactions''. World Scientific 1981<br />
.'' The Neutrino Story: One tiny particles grand role in the cosmos'' Springer Nature (2020)<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{DNB-Portal|109139453}}<br />
* [https://www.physics.umd.edu/people/faculty/mohapatra.html Homepage in Maryland]<br />
*[https://inspirehep.net/author/profile/R.N.Mohapatra.1 Scientific publications of Rabindra Mohapatra]{{Dead link|date=October 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} on [[INSPIRE-HEP]]<br />
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