work_institution academic_doctoral_advisors birth_place influences awards nationality field birth_date known_for residence article_title name alma_mater
thomas of california at berkeley -lrb- 1974-1982 , 1984-2001 -rrb- lawrence jefferson berkeley national laboratory -lrb- 1976-1982 , 1984-2001 -rrb- cern -lrb- national 1982-1984 -rrb- accelerator facility -lrb- 2001-2007 -rrb- university dr. joseph j bisognano prof. wulf kinkel calcutta , west bengal , india early school physics mentor -rrb- owen chamberlain -lrb- academin post-graduate mentor childhood -rrb- in darjeeling pramatha nath patra -lrb- high xia jia-er chen , ex president of the chinese academy of , science -lrb- academia sinica -rrb- and professor emeritus , peking shi-meng university , presented in 2004 by prof. usa swapan chaterji -rrb- -lrb- naturalized in the usa in 1995 as physics 26 december 1951 particle accelerator science and technology cheshire , uk and california , usa swapan chattopadhyay
 swapan chattopadhyay university -lrb- 1972-1974 -rrb- indian institute of technology -lrb- 1970-1972 -rrb- of st. xaviers college -lrb- 1967-1970 -rrb- california -lrb- 1974-1982 -rrb- university of oregon
swapan chattopadhyay

swapan chattopadhyay -lrb- born december 26 , 1951 -rrb- is a particle accelerator physicist noted for his pioneering contributions of innovative concepts , techniques and developments in high energy particle colliders , coherent and incoherent light sources , ultrafast sciences in the femto - and atto - second regimes , superconducting linear accelerators and various applications of interaction of particle and light beams .
he has directly contributed to the development of many accelerators around the world , e.g. the super proton-antiproton synchrotron at cern , the advanced light source at berkeley , the asymmetric-energy electron-positron collider pep-ii at stanford , the continuous electron beam accelerator facility -lrb- cebaf -rrb- at jefferson lab and the free-electron lasers at jefferson and daresbury laboratories .
chattopadhyay was formerly the sir john cockcroft chair of physics jointly at the universities of liverpool , manchester and lancaster - the first chair of accelerator physics in uk , named after the british nobel laureate credited with creating the field .
in this role he was director of the cockcroft institute -lrb- uk -rrb- , having been appointed in april 2007 .
prior to this he served as associate director of thomas jefferson national accelerator facility -lrb- 2001-2007 -rrb- ; staff / senior scientist and founding director of the centre for beam physics at lawrence berkeley national laboratory -lrb- 1984-2001 -rrb- ; and scientific attaché at cern -lrb- 1982 - 1984 -rrb- .
having spent his early childhood in calcutta and darjeeling in india , he completed his undergraduate studies as a national scholar and national science talent scholar before receiving his ph.d. in physics from university of california at berkeley in 1982 .
he had held visiting professor appointments at university of california at berkeley , harvard university , university of illinois at urbana champagne and university of virginia at charlottesville at various times .
he is a fellow of the american physical society , american association for the advancement of science , institute of physics -lrb- uk -rrb- and royal society of arts , manufactures and commerce -lrb- uk -rrb- and a member of many international panels and committees , including the `' ' international committee for future accelerators '' ' and the desy science council .
he had served as the vice-chair , chair-elect , chair and past-chair of the american physical society 's division of physics of beams -lrb- 2007-2011 -rrb- .
he has mentored many scientists and engineers across the globe including asia , north america and europe and has delivered endowed lectures throughout the world e.g. saha memorial lecture , homi bhabha lecture , raja ramanna memorial lecture , and cavendish lecture among many .
