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{{short description|Indian physicist (born 1940)}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Sudhanshu Shekhar Jha
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1940|12|25}}
| birth_place = [Vijayanagar, Banka, Bihar 813102], India
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| fields = {{ublist | [[Condensed matter physics]] }}
| workplaces = {{ublist | [[Bhabha Atomic Research Centre|BARC]] Training School | [[Tata Institute of Fundamental Research]] | [[IIT Bombay]] | [[Oklahoma State University]] }}
| alma_mater = {{ublist | [[Patna Science College]] | [[University of Patna]] | [[Stanford University]] | [[Harvard University]] | [[IBM Research]] }}
| doctoral_advisor = {{ublist | [[Felix Bloch]] | [[Nicolaas Bloembergen]] }}
| doctoral_students =
| known_for = Studies on [[Optoelectronics]]
| awards = {{ublist| 1979 [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]] | 1988 C. V. Raman Birth Centenary Medal | 1992 [[Indian National Science Academy|INSA]] S. N. Bose Medal | 2001–02 [[Indian Science Congress Association|ISCA]] C. V. Raman Birth Centenary Award }}
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'''Sudhanshu Shekhar Jha''' (born 25 December 1940) is an Indian [[condensed matter physicist]] and a former director of [[Tata Institute of Fundamental Research]]. Known for his research in [[optoelectronics]], Jha is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies – [[Indian National Science Academy]], [[National Academy of Sciences, India]] and [[Indian Academy of Sciences]] – as well as of [[The World Academy of Sciences]] and [[American Physical Society]]. The [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]], the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded Jha the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology]], one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to Physical Sciences in 1979.<ref name="View Bhatnagar Awardees">{{cite web | url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/AwardeeList.aspx | title=View Bhatnagar Awardees | publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | date=2016 | accessdate=12 November 2016}}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|Long link – please select award year to see details}}

== Biography ==
[[File:Tifr main.jpg|thumb|left|235px|Tata Institute of Fundamental Research]]
S. S. Jha, born on 25 December 1940 in [[Banka, Bihar|Banka]] in the Indian state of Bihar, earned his BSc (hons) from [[Patna Science College]] of the [[University of Patna]] in 1957 and started his career by joining [[Bhabha Atomic Research Centre|BARC]] Training School (then known as Atomic Research Establishment) as a trainee.<ref name="Indian fellow">{{Cite web |url=http://insaindia.res.in/detail/N79-0342 |title=Indian fellow |date=2017 |publisher=Indian National Science Academy}}</ref> In 1958, he joined [[Tata Institute of Fundamental Research]] (TIFR) as a research assistant but taking a sabbatical from work, he moved to the US to pursue his higher studies. After obtaining an MS in physics and mathematics from [[Stanford University]] in 1962, Jha continued there for his doctoral studies, mentored by [[Felix Bloch]], the 1952 [[Nobel laureate]] to secure a PhD in 1965.<ref name="Indian fellow" /> Returning to India, he resumed his career at TIFR as a research fellow and in 1967, he joined [[Harvard University]]{{Refn|group=note|On leave from TIFR}} to do his post-doctoral work at the laboratory of [[Nicolaas Bloembergen]], who would also go on to win the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] in 1981.<ref name="Nicolaas Bloembergen">{{Cite web |url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1981/bloembergen-autobio.html |title=Nicolaas Bloembergen |date=2017 |publisher=Nobel Prize}}</ref> Jha spent two years in the US of which the first year was spent at Bloembergen's laboratory (1967–68) and the second at [[IBM Research|IBM Research Center]]. He returned to TIFR in 1969 and stayed at the institute till his superannuation in 2002 as the director. During this period, Jha held various positions as a reader, associate professor, professor, senior professor and a distinguished professor. Post-retirement, he worked as a distinguished guest professor at the [[Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay]] from 2002 to 2012, and as a guest faculty at [[Michigan State University]] and [[Oklahoma State University]].<ref name="Indian fellow" /> Married to Sudha ( 2 daughters, Nandita and Pallavi).

Jha is associated with Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences, a collaborative initiative of the [[University of Mumbai]] and the [[Department of Atomic Energy]] as an honorary professor<ref name="TWAS fellow">{{Cite web |url=https://twas.org/member/jha-sudhanshu-s |title=TWAS fellow |date=2017 |publisher=The World Academy of Sciences}}</ref> and lives at [[Seven Bungalows]], in [[Andheri]], a suburb of [[Mumbai]].<ref name="NASI fellows">{{Cite web |url=http://www.nasi.org.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=J |title=NASI fellows |date=2017 |publisher=National Academy of Sciences, India |access-date=23 April 2017 |archive-date=7 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200707200112/http://www.nasi.org.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=J |url-status=dead }}</ref>

== Legacy ==
[[File:Raman energy levels.svg|thumb|235px|Raman energy levels]]
Jha's research was focused on various aspects of solid state and plasma physics, especially [[non linear optics]].<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee">{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/content/Detail.aspx?AID=488 |title=Brief Profile of the Awardee |date=2017 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |access-date=12 November 2016}}</ref> He is known to have carried out extensive work on [[Raman scattering]] which covered electronic exs in solids, laser beams, [[superconductivity]] in layered [[semimetals]], [[Excitons]] as well as [[neutrinos]] and has investigated the processes occur on a small space within a short time span, using [[Raman spectroscopy]]. Jha's work assisted in developing the theory related to wave-wave interactions in a [[Plasma (physics)|plasma]] and also contributed in refining [[thermonuclear fusion]] studies.<ref name="Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners">{{cite web | url=http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf | title=Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners | publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research | date=1999}}</ref> His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles{{Refn|group=note|Please see ''Selected bibliography'' section}} and the article repository of the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]] has listed 127 of them.<ref name="Browse by Fellow">{{Cite web |url=https://repository.ias.ac.in/view/fellows/Jha=3ASudhanshu_Shekhar=3A=3A.html |title=Browse by Fellow |date=2017 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences}}</ref> He has also supervised the work of a number of doctoral scholars.<ref name="Indian fellow" />

Jha was a member of the scientific advisory committee to the cabinet of the [[Government of India|Union Government]] during 1997–98 and sat in two of the commissions of the [[International Union of Pure and Applied Physics]] (IUPAP).<ref name="Indian fellow" /> He chaired
''PhD Graduate School Committee'' of [[Tata Institute of Fundamental Research]] from 1969 to 1974, the ''Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences'' (BRNS) of the [[Department of Atomic Energy]] from 1993 to 1997, the governing council of the [[Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar]] from 2001 to 2007 and the Consortium of the [[University Grants Commission of India]] and the Department of Atomic Energy for Scientific Research during the period 2002–08. Jha was a member of the council of the Indian Academy of Sciences from 1989 to 1994 of which he served as the vice president from 1989 to 1991.<ref name="Fellow profile">{{Cite web |url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Jha,_Prof._Sudhanshu_Shekhar |title=Fellow profile |date=2017 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences}}</ref> He was associated with the Indo-French Centre for the Promotion of Advanced Research (IFCPAR) from 1993 to 1996 as a member of its scientific council and has been a member of the governing council of [[Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics]] for six years between 1998 and 2004. Jha is a board member of the [[Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai]],<ref name="Governing Board">{{Cite web |url=https://www.imsc.res.in/board |title=Governing Board |date=2017 |publisher=Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai}}</ref>
and has been associated with the Indian National Science Academy as a council member for the term 1999–2001 and with the ''Centre for Nano and Soft Matter Sciences'' (CeNS) as a governing council member.<ref name="Indian fellow" />

== Awards and honors ==
The [[Indian Academy of Sciences]] elected Jha as their fellow in 1974<ref name="Fellow profile" /> and five years later, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]], one of the highest Indian science awards in 1979'<ref name="CSIR list of Awardees">{{Cite web |url=http://www.csir.res.in/careeraward/prize-winner-indexdiscipline-wise |title=CSIR list of Awardees |date=2017 |publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research}}</ref> the same year as he became a fellow of the [[Indian National Science Academy]].<ref name="INSA Year Book 2016">{{Cite web |url=http://www.insaindia.res.in/pdf/YearBook_2016.pdf |title=INSA Year Book 2016 |date=2017 |publisher=Indian National Science Academy}}</ref> He received the C. V. Raman Birth Centenary Medal in 1988 and the year 1989 brought him the elected fellowships of the [[American Physical Society]] and the [[National Academy of Sciences, India]].<ref name="NASI Year Book 2015">{{Cite web |url=http://www.nasi.org.in/Year%20Book%202015.pdf |title=NASI Year Book 2015 |date=2017 |publisher=National Academy of Sciences, India |access-date=23 April 2017 |archive-date=6 August 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150806211716/http://www.nasi.org.in/Year%20Book%202015.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> The Indian National Science Academy honored Jha again with the Satyendranath Bose Bose Medal in 1992.<ref name="S. N. Bose Medal">{{Cite web |url=http://insaindia.res.in/recipients.php#12 |title=S. N. Bose Medal |date=2017 |publisher=Indian National Science Academy |access-date=23 April 2017 |archive-date=16 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916233840/http://insaindia.res.in/recipients.php#12 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was elected as a fellow by the [[Maharashtra Academy of Sciences]]<ref name="MAS fellows">{{Cite web |url=http://mahascience.org/files/fellowship/files/academymembers.htm |title=MAS fellows |date=2017 |publisher=Maharashtra Academy of Sciences}}</ref> and a year later, he became a fellow of [[The World Academy of Sciences]].<ref name="TWAS fellow" /> The [[Indian Science Congress Association]] selected Jha for the 2001–02 C. V. Raman Birth Centenary Award and the award orations delivered by him include the 1991 Jawaharlal Nehru Birth Centenary lecture of the Indian National Science Academy.<ref name="Jawaharlal Nehru Birth Centenary Lecture">{{Cite web |url=http://insaindia.res.in/recipients.php#jncl |title=Jawaharlal Nehru Birth Centenary Lecture |date=2017 |publisher=Indian National Science Academy |access-date=23 April 2017 |archive-date=16 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916233840/http://insaindia.res.in/recipients.php#jncl |url-status=dead }}</ref>

== Selected bibliography ==
* {{Cite journal |author1=Press, M. R. |author2=Jha, Sudhanshu S. |title=Anomalous normal state electronic Raman scattering continuum in YBCO: inadequacy of frequency-dependent collision-rate models |journal=Physica C: Superconductivity |date=1992 |volume=201 |issue=1–2 |pages=21–26 |doi=10.1016/0921-4534(92)90099-X|bibcode=1992PhyC..201...21P }}
* {{Cite journal |last=Jha, Sudhanshu S. |title=Electronic Raman scattering intensity in layered high-Tc superconductors: threshold energy, symmetry and anisotropy of energy gap |journal=Journal of Raman Spectroscopy |date=1996 |volume=27 |issue=3–4 |pages=321–327 |doi=10.1002/(SICI)1097-4555(199603)27:3/4<321::AID-JRS953>3.3.CO;2-#|bibcode=1996JRSp...27..321J }}
* {{Cite journal |author1=Jawkar, Swapnil S. |author2=Jha, Sudhanshu S. |title=Mean square number fluctuation for a fermion source and its dependence on neutrino mass for the universal cosmic neutrino background |journal=Pramana - Journal of Physics |date=2005 |volume=64 |issue=1 |pages=17–29 |doi=10.1007/BF02704526|bibcode=2005Prama..64...17J |s2cid=55905199 }}
* {{Cite journal |author1=Mahanti, S. D. |author2=Jha, Sudhanshu S. |title=The ground state of chargeless fermions with finite magnetic moment |journal=Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General |date=2006 |volume=39 |issue=6 |pages=1239–1249 |doi=10.1088/0305-4470/39/6/002|bibcode=2006JPhA...39.1239M |s2cid=120022896 }}
* {{Cite journal |author1=Jha, Sudhanshu S. |author2=Mahanti, S. D. |title=Hartree-Fock variational bounds for ground state energy of chargeless fermions with finite magnetic moment in the presence of a hard core potential: a stable ferromagnetic state |journal=Pramana - Journal of Physics |date=2007 |volume=68 |issue=5 |pages=819–830 |doi=10.1007/s12043-007-0080-y|arxiv=cond-mat/0703547 |bibcode=2007Prama..68..819J |s2cid=29928369 }}

== See also ==
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* [[High-temperature superconductivity]]
* [[Fermion]]
* [[Mean squared displacement]]
* [[Hartree–Fock method]]
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== Notes ==
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== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{Cite web |url=https://sudhanshusjha.blogspot.in/2012/05/bio-data-curriculum-vitae.html |title=Curriculum Vitae of Sudhanshu Shekhar Jha |date=2017 |publisher=Blog}}

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