Dr Surjit Singh Bhatti, Formerly Professor & Head, Physics & Dean, Faculty of  Sciences, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar (India). The world has faced several natural calamities in the past like droughts, famines, epidemics, earthquakes, wildfires,  flooding and more. These were confined to limited regions of the Earth. Today, this planet as a whole is…

By (Dr) Surjit Singh Bhatti, Formerly Professor & Head Physics, Dean, Faculty of Sciences, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar(India) Very few know today that a century ago an Indian Sikh scholar had done pioneering research in Industrial Chemistry and put the country’s name on the world map in modern science. Professor (Dr) Puran […] The Little-known…

                                                By (Dr) Surjit Singh Bhatti, Formerly Professor & Head Physics, Dean, Faculty of Sciences, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar(India)                     Very few know today that a century ago an Indian Sikh scholar had done pioneering research in Industrial Chemistry and put the country’s name on the world map in modern science. Professor (Dr) Puran…

                                                     By   Professor (Dr) Surjit Singh Bhatti   Head, Physics and Dean, Applied Sciences (Retired)  Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar (India) Since the beginning of the 20th century, Scientists have been trying to find planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets. However,  the first success came in 1995 with the discovery of an exoplanet, called…

Dr Surjit Singh Bhatti, Prof. & Head Physics, Dean Faculty of Sciences (Retired), Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar (India) The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded jointly to three, the Canadian Dr Donna Theo Strickland of University of Waterloo, the Frenchman Dr Gérard Mourou, (of École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France), now at the University of…

(By) Dr Surjit Singh Bhatti, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar The 2019 Sverige Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in the Memory of Alfred Nobel was awarded jointly to Dr Abhijit V, Banerjee, his wife Dr Esther Duflo (both of MIT, USA), and Dr Michael Kremer (of Harvard University, Cambridge, USA), “for their experimental approach to…

(By) Dr Surjit Singh Bhatti (Rtd.), Professor & Head Physics, Dean, Faculty of Sciences,  Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar.           We met about 40 years ago during a National Conference in India where I learnt of his interests in applying Ultrasonics and Electronics in Bio-Medical Instrumentation. “Engineering aims at using Science to find practical solutions. An…

Thoughts on 550-th Birth Anniversary of the Founder of Sikhi Dr Surjit Singh Bhatti, Retired Professor of Physics Are we really living in the 21st century ? We Sikhs are living in the technology-driven 21st century where children teach their parents and grandparents how to use advanced smart phones, computers, cameras and other sophisticated scientific…

                                “How Cells Sense and Adapt to Oxygen Availability”,  DISCOVERY THAT GIVES THE 2019 NOBEL PRIZE IN                                             PHYSIOLOGY / MEDICINE Dr Surjit Singh Bhatti, (Retd) Professor & Head, Physics, and Dean ( Sciences), Guru Nanak…

Dr Surjit Singh Bhatti (Retd) Prof & Head, Physics and Dean Faculty of Sciences, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar The American Scientist Thomas Edison’s inventions of the Improved Telegraph and Telephonic systems, Phonograph, Incandescent Light Bulb, Alkaline Storage Batteries and Motion-Picture Cameras are the harbingers of today’s world. He had acquired a record number of…