Arati Dasgupta (born 1949)[1] is a plasma physicist. Originally from India, she works in the US as head of the Radiation Hydrodynamics Branch in the Plasma Physics Division of the United States Naval Research Laboratory.[2]
Dasgupta is originally from Kolkata.[3] She was an undergraduate physics major at the University of Maryland, College Park,[4] graduating in 1973; she continued there for a 1976 master's degree and 1983 Ph.D.,[2] with the dissertation Application of the Method of Polarized Orbilals to the Photoionization of the Sodium Atom and to Electron Scattering from Ionized Sodium.[5] After postdoctoral research in industry, she joined the Naval Research Laboratory in 1986.[3] She became section head in 2015 and branch head in 2020.[2]
She was named as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2010, after a nomination from the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics, "for contributions to the theory of electron collisions with atoms and ions, and their applications to gaseous electronics, short laser pulses, inertial confinement fusion, and astrophysical plasmas".[6] She became a Fellow of the Washington Academy of Sciences in 2014,[2][7] and received the IEEE Plasma Science and Applications Committee Award in 2024.[2]
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edit- ^ Dasgupta, Arati, 1949-, Library of Congress, retrieved 2024-10-25
- ^ a b c d e Parry, Daniel (April 2, 2024), Dr. Arati Dasgupta Honored by the Nuclear and Plasma Science Society, Naval Research Laboratory, retrieved 2024-10-25
- ^ a b "Arati Dasgupta", IEEE Xplore, IEEE, retrieved 2024-10-25
- ^ "Appendix D: Committee Member Biographical Information", Plasma Science: Enabling Technology, Sustainability, Security, and Exploration, Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2021, pp. 409–410, doi:10.17226/25802
- ^ Commencement, University of Maryland, College Park, December 23, 1983, p. 13
- ^ APS Fellows Archive, American Physical Society, retrieved 2024-10-25
- ^ McKinney, Donna (March 10, 2015), Dr. Arati Dasgupta Awarded Fellowship to Washington Academy of Sciences, Naval Research Laboratory, retrieved 2024-10-25