Arun Kumar Basak (born October 17, 1941) is a Bangladeshi physicist. He is

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in the Department of Physics,

University of Rajshahi The University of Rajshahi, also known as Rajshahi University or RU ( bn, রাজশাহী বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়), is a public co-educational research university in Bangladesh situated near the northern Bangladeshi cit ...

Early life and education

Basak was born in Radhanagor of

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town,

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to parents Haripada Basak and Usha Rani Basak. Basak matriculated in 1957 securing First Division from R.M. Academy. He secured the second position in the merit list in the Intermediate Science Examination held under

in 1959 from Edward College. He was placed in First Class with the first position in the B.Sc. (Hons) examination from

Rajshahi College Rajshahi College ( bn, রাজশাহী কলেজ ''Rajshahi Kôlej'') is the third oldest institution of higher education in Bangladesh. Established in 1873 in Rajshahi city, it is the third oldest college in Bangladesh after Dhaka Co ...

in 1961. In M.Sc. Examination (1963) from University of Rajshahi, he obtained the first position in first class and was awarded an RU Gold medal.

Career

In December 1963, Basak joined the University of Rajshahi as a lecturer in the Department of Physics. In 1978, Basak was appointed as an Associate Professor by the

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, but he preferred to stay in Rajshahi where he became Associate Professor in the later part of 1978. He was awarded a merit scholarship for securing the highest marks in the Faculty of Science and got admission at

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, London. Owing to the 1965 Indo-Pak war, he could not avail the opportunity. In 1972, he went to the

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with a Commonwealth Scholarship. He worked with the tensor polarized deuteron and the polarized ³He beams, the latter being the only one of its kind in the world. He earned his Ph.D. degree in 1975.

Professional membership

# Senior associate of the

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, Italy during 1987–96. # Elected as a

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of the

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in 2001 # Elected as a fellow of the

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(

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) in 2001. # Was a principal investigator from Bangladesh in a collaborative project, which funded by the US National Science Foundation. # The fellow of Bangladesh Physical Society from 1987 (life membership). # A member of American Physical Society during 2000-03 and from 2013(life membership).

Others

* Was a post doctoral fellow in

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, The

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, United States during 1981–82. * An associate member of ICTP, Italy during 1988–1995. * Visiting scholar at

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, USA in 1997. * Visiting Professor at

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, USA.

Awards

* Bangladesh Academy of Sciences Gold Medal in Physical Sciences (2003) * Star Lifetime Award on Physics (2016)

References

External links

Top Publications of A. K. Basak
{{DEFAULTSORT:Basak, Arun Kumar 1941 births Living people Bengali Hindus Bangladeshi Hindus Bangladeshi physicists University of Rajshahi alumni University of Rajshahi faculty Alumni of the University of Birmingham Bengali physicists Nuclear physicists Theoretical physicists Fellows of Bangladesh Academy of Sciences Physics educators People from Pabna District Rajshahi College alumni Fellows of the Bangladesh Physical Society Pabna Edward College alumni