Praveen Chaudhari, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Praveen Chaudhari

Indian American physician

Date of Birth: 30-Nov-1937

Place of Birth: Ludhiana, Punjab, India

Date of Death: 12-Jan-2010

Profession: physicist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Dr.
Praveen Chaudhari (November 30, 1937 – January 12, 2010) was an Indian American physicist who has contributed to the field of material physics.
His research focused on structure and properties of amorphous solids, defects in solids, mechanical properties of thin films, superconductivity, quantum transport in disordered systems, liquid crystal alignment on substrates, and the magnetic monopole experiment.
He has published numerous papers and filed 22 patents, most notably one for the erasable read-write compact discs which are commonly used to burn music.He was at IBM for 36 years during which he was appointed director and later vice president of science in 1981 and 1982.
In 2004, he became director of Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and stepped down in 2006. Praveen died on January 12, 2010, at the age of 72.
He is survived by his wife, Karin; his son, Ashok; and his daughter, Pia.