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{{Infobox academic<br />
|name = Vipin Kumar Tripathi<br />
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1948|03|11}}<br />
|birth_place = [[Jhansi]], [[India]]<br />
|honorific_prefix = Professor Emeritus<br />
|alma_mater= [[Agra University]], [[Indian Institute of Technology Delhi]]<br />
|main_interests=<br />
|known_for = [[Plasma (physics)]]<br />
|notable_works = Sadbhav Mission<br />
|children = Rakhi Tripathi<br />
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| discipline = [[Physics]]<br />
| sub_discipline = [[Plasma (physics)|Plasma]]<br />
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'''Vipin Kumar Tripathi''' alternately known as '''VK Tripathi''' (born 11 March 1948) is an [[Indian people|Indian]] [[Plasma (physics)|Plasma]] physicist. He is former Physics professor of [[IIT, Delhi]].<ref name="telegraphindia">{{Cite web|title=Professor fights for Kashmir, armed with pamphlets|url=https://m.telegraphindia.com/india/professor-fights-for-kashmir-armed-with-pamphlets/cid/1706570|website=Telegraph India|author1=Pheroze L. Vincent|accessdate=9 February 2020}}</ref><br />
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==Early life and education==<br />
Tripathi was born in [[Jhansi]], [[Uttar Pradesh]] on 11 March 1948. He did his Masters from [[Agra University]] and completed his PhD from [[Indian Institute of Technology Delhi]].<ref name="tnn">{{cite news |author1=Shradha Chettri |title=Delhi: Meet the 71-year-old pamphlet man with a message of peace |url=https://m.timesofindia.com/city/delhi/meet-the-71-year-old-pamphlet-man-with-a-message-of-peace/amp_articleshow/71696237.cms |accessdate=16 January 2020 |publisher=Times of India |date=22 October 2019 |language=English}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
Tripathi started his career as a lecturer with [[IIT, Delhi]] in 1970. He joined [[University of Maryland, College Park|University of Maryland]] in 1976 as a Post-Doctoral Researcher and then a Research Associate. He was involved in the research on radio frequency heating of fusion plasma's in the university. In 1983, He joined [[Indian Institute of Technology Delhi]] as a Professor of Physics where he served for about 30 years.<ref name="tnn" /><ref name="profile">{{cite web |title=Profile of Vipin Kumar Tripathi |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/37320273400 |website=ieeexplore.ieee.org |accessdate=8 February 2020}}</ref><br />
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===Sadbhav Mission===<br />
Sadbhav Mission aims to develop a grassroots resistance against communalism and mobilizing people on basic issues like education, as stated on its official website. Professor Tripathi established it in the aftermath of [[1989 Bhagalpur violence|Bhagalpur riots]] in 1990.<ref name="sadbhav">{{cite web |title=About Sadbhav Mission |url=http://www.sadbhavmission.org/about.html |website=Sadbhav Mission |accessdate=8 February 2020}}</ref> Professor Tripathi through the Sadbhav Mission has written and distributed pamphlets on the issues like [[Article 370 of the Constitution of India|Abrogation of Article 370]]<ref name="edu">{{cite web |author1=Pawanjot Kaur and Sunil Rawat |title=To Educate People on Kashmir, a 71-Year-Old Has Taken to the Streets All Alone |url=https://thewire.in/rights/watch-to-educate-people-on-kashmir-a-71-year-old-has-taken-to-the-streets-all-alone |website=The Wire |accessdate=16 January 2020 |date=14 October 2019}}</ref> and [[Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019|CAA]]<ref name="national">{{cite web |title=Retired IIT Professor's solitary campaign against the National Register of Citizens: Listen to VK Tripathi |url=https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/india/retired-iit-professors-solitary-campaign-against-the-national-register-of-citizens-listen-to-vk-tripathi |website=National Herald India |accessdate=8 February 2020 |date=16 December 2019}}</ref> as a mode of protest.<br />
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===Literary works===<br />
Some notable publications of Tripathi are:<ref name="profile" /><ref name="research">{{cite web |title=V.K. Tripathi's research works |url=https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/2093627662_VK_Tripathi |website=ResearchGate |accessdate=8 February 2020}}</ref><br />
*Parametric instabilities in laser produced plasmas. <br />
* Thermonuclear fusion<br />
* Plasma-aided radiation guiding in a free-electron laser<br />
* Stimulated Brillouin scattering of a laser beam in a plasma channel<br />
* Cherenkov Terahertz Generation by Electron Bunches in a Dielectric Lined Resonator<br />
*Theoretical Modeling and Experimental Verification of the Permeability Measurements of Thick Films at Microwave Frequencies<br />
*Laser wakefield bubble regime acceleration of electrons in a preformed non uniform plasma channel<br />
* Plasmonics<br />
* High power laser plasma interaction<br />
* Fundamentals of plasma physics<br />
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