Educational Background w  B.Sc. with Honours in Physics and Mathematics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 1959 w  M.Sc. in Physics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 1961 w  Ph.D. in Physics, Columbia University, New York, USA, 1966   Professional Career   w  CSIR Junior Research Fellow, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 1961-62. w  Lecturer in Physics, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, Oct. 1966-March 1967. Assistant Professor, March 1967- Dec. 1967. w  Assistant Research Physicist, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA, Jan. 1968 -July 1970. w  Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Sept. 1970 - Oct.1977. w  Professor, IIT Kanpur, Oct. 1977- July 1980. w  Visiting Fellow, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA, Aug. 1978- Sept.1981. w  Consultant, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA, July 1980-Sept.1981. w  Visiting Professor, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Oct.1981- Aug.1984. w  Coordinator, Research Programme on Disorder, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, Aug. 1983- Dec.1983. w  Professor, Department of Physics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Aug. 1984- April 1986. w  Professor, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, April 1986-Aug. 2003. w  Visiting Professor and Visiting Research Physicist, Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA, 1990-1991. w  Consultant, AT & T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA, 1990-1991. w  Honorary Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore, 1993- present. w  INSA Srinivasa Ramanujan Research Professor, 1997-2002. w  Rothschild Visiting Professor, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge University, May-June, 2000. w  DAE Homi Bhabha Chair Professor (held in Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 2003-2008) w  Distinguished Associate, Centre for Condensed Matter Theory, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 2003-present. w  Visiting Fellow Commoner, Trinity College, and Visiting Professor, Cambridge University, 2004.  w  Honorary Distinguished Professor, IIT Kanpur, Oct. 2004-2006. w  Emeritus Professor, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, 2006-present. w  Hindustan Lever Research Professor, 2008- present   Distinctions  etc.. w  Devasthale Prize in Physics, 1959. w  Higgins Fellow, Columbia University, New York, 1962-63; President's Fellow, Columbia University, 1963-66. w  Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 2004.                Fellowship w  Indian Academy of Sciences (Bangalore), 1980. w  Indian National Science Academy (New Delhi), 1984. w  American Physical Society (USA), 1984. w  Third World Academy of Sciences (Trieste, Italy), 1991. w  National Academy of Sciences (Allahabad), 1993. w  Royal Society (London), UK, 2000. w  Institute of Physics, UK, 2000. w  Honorary Fellow, TIFR, Mumbai, 2004. w  Foreign Associate, Academie des Sciences (Paris), France,2005. w  Honorary Associate, IACS,Kolkata, 2006.             w  Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award for Physical Sciences, CSIR, India, 1982. w  Third World Academy of Sciences Award in Physics, 1990. w  Mahendralal Sircar Award for Physical Sciences, 1994. w  Alumni Award for Excellence in Research, Indian Institute of Science, 1997. w  Jawaharlal Nehru Award for Science, MP Council for Science and Technology, 1999. w  C V Raman Centenary Medal, Indian Science Congress, 2001. w  Padma Sri, President of India, 2001. w  Meghnad Saha Medal, Asiatic Society, Kolkata, 2002. w  Distinguished Materials Scientist of the Year, Materials Research Society of India, 2004. w  Goyal Prize in Physics, Kurukshetra, 2004. w  Trieste Science Prize, 2005. w  G M Modi Award in Science, 2008.                   Lectureship w  K S Krishnan Award Lecture, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi, 1997 w  Meghnad Saha Memorial Lecture, National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad, 2001 w  National Professor, Indian Council of Philosophical Research, New Delhi, 2010-12. Invited speaker at many international professional conferences, including w  Nobel Symposium 73 (Graftvallen, Sweden, June 1988) on Physics of Low-Dimensional Systems w  Critical Problems in Physics, a conference to commemorate 250 years of  Princeton University, Aug. 1996 w  Fifty Years of Condensed Matter Physics, a conference in honour of P W Anderson, Aspen, USA, Jan. 2000. w  Frontiers in Physics: Fortieth Anniversary of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, Oct. 4-5, 2004.        Member, Editorial Board w  International Journal of Modern Physics (World Scientific Pub. Co. Singapore); Physica B (North Holland, Amsterdam); Journal of Physics Condensed Matter (IOP, UK; 1991-94); Physical Review B (APS, New York, 1993-98), European Journal of Physics (IOP, UK).            Membership (etc.), Scientific Council w  International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy (1994-2003). w  Member, Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge MA, USA, 1994-present.   w  Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, New Delhi (1994-2000) w  Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Calcutta, (1995-2003) w  Nuclear Science Centre, New Delhi, (1995-2000) w  Centre for Liquid Crystals Research, Bangalore, (1996- 2004) w  Vice-President, Indian National Science Academy, 2000-2003. w  Inter University Consortium, Indore, (2001-2003). w  Indian Association for Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, (2004-2008) w  President, Indian Academy of Sciences, 2004-2006 w  Science Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (2005-present)