Mittal Jai Pal

Mittal (PhD 1967, U. of Notre Dame) is M.N. SAHA dist. prof., Bhabha Atomic Rsrch. Ctre. (BARC), India (2010). He was Raja Ramanna Fellow, Dept. of Atom. En., India (2006-10); dist. guest prof., IIT, Bombay; hon. prof., U. of Pune; vis. prof., U. of Heidelberg, Germany, and Osaka U., Japan. He was the Director , Chemistry and Isotope Group, BARC, Trombay, and hon. prof., JNCAR, Bangalore. He did his postdoc. work at UCLA, and has published 350 research papers. He is a fellow of INSA, Ind. Acad. of Scs., and Maharashtra Acad. of Scs. He was President., Natl. Acad. of Scs., India, & President, Ind. Chemical Soc. Honours include: Humboldt Res. Award; Sr. JSPS Award; Platinum Jubilee Lecture Award; Ind. Science Congress; INSA Golden Jubilee Medal; NR Dhar Memorial Medal, NAS; Goyal Gold Medal, Kurukshetra U.; Lifetime Achvmt Award, Ind. Chemical Soc., 2008; Lifetime Achvmt Gold Medal, Chemical Res. Soc. of India. Awarded National Awarded" PadmaShree" by the President of India (2003)