Bhatia, Avadh Behari
Physicist
1921-1984

Born in India, Dr. Bhatia received advanced degrees from the 
University of Allahabad and Liverpool.  He was a researcher 
under Max Born at the University of Edinburgh.  He came to 
Canada on a National Research Council fellowship, and in 
1954 joined the Department of Physics at the University.  
From 1964 to 1969 he was director of the Theoretical Physics 
Institute.  He was a pioneer in electronic transport theory 
and the study of diffraction of light by ultrasonic waves.

The papers include tributes to Dr. Bhatia and papers 
published after his death in 1984.

Multiple media, 1937-1987, 0.84 m    

Biographical files, 1937-1985
Includes educational records; notebooks; scrapbooks.

Personal and professional activities, 1952-1987

Photographs, 1953-1983
Conferences, University of Alberta Department of Physics
(20 images).

Research, 1944-1986
Includes correspondence; manuscripts; monographs;
notebooks; offprints; reviews.

Teaching, [195-?]-[198-?]
Lecture notes.

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