Piara Singh Gill

Infobox_Scientist
name = Piara Singh Gill


caption = Piara Singh Gill
religion = Sikh
birth_date = birth date|1911|10|28|df=y
birth_place = Chela in Hoshiarpur district of Punjab
death_date = death date and age|2002|3|23|1911|10|28|df=y
residence = India
nationality = Indian
field = Physics
work_institution = Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Atomic Energy Commission of India
Aligarh University
Punjab Agricultural University
University of Chicago
First Director of CSIO of India

alma_mater = University of Southern California
University of Chicago

doctoral_advisor = Arthur Compton
doctoral_students =
known_for = Advanced nuclear cosmic ray research. Scientists who worked on the Manhattan project & First director of CSIO.
prizes =
footnotes =

Piara Singh Gill, (28 October 1911 - 23 March 2002) was a scientist (physicist) who was a pioneer in cosmic ray nuclear physics and worked on the American Manhattan project "Up Against Odds: Autobiography of an Indian Scientist". (South Asia Books, 1993. ISBN 817023364X).] . Moreover, was the first Director of Central Scientific Instruments Organization (CSIO) of India. [http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/seta/2003/02/27/stories/2003022700170300.htm The Hindu : P.S. Gill (1911-2002): Physicist and instrument designer ] ] He was research fellow of Chicago University (1940)http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/jun102002/1404.pdf] . He was research Professorship fellow of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) (1947), Officer-on-Special Duty (OSD) with the Atomic Energy Commission in New Delhi. Professor & Head in the Department of Physics at Aligarh University (1949), Director of Central Scientific Instruments Organization (CSIO) (1959) and Professor Emeritus Punjab Agricultural University (1971) .

Personal life

He was born in 28 October 1911 in a Gill Jat Sikh family in the village of Chela in Hoshiarpur district of Punjab. He attended Khalsa High School in Mahilpur (1928) and left for America in 1929. He attended and graduated with a bachelors and Master's degree from University of Southern California. He worked for his PhD in Physics at University of Chicago under the supervision and guidance of Arthur Compton, the Nobel Prize winning Scientist. He received his PhD in Physics from University of Chicago in March 1940. He was a good friend and close colleague of Homi J. Bhabha, who offered him the research fellow Professorship at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in 1947 . He was also a close friend of Nehru, who was one of the people he impressed with his scientific breakthroughs [ [http://prola.aps.org/search/field/author/Gill_P_S PROLA Search ] ] , he offered him the post of Officer-on-Special Duty (OSD) with the Atomic Energy Commission in New Delhi and he also asked him to become the first Director of Central Scientific Instruments Organization (CSIO) of India. on India's nuclear weapons strategy in the 1950-60s . Some free excerpts from Professor Piara Singh Gill's autobiography can be read at Google Books "(click on reference to read)" [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=YMTZg_jhuEYC&pg=PP1&ots=Z9-RlEqak7&dq=Up+Against+Odds:+Autobiography+of+an+Indian+Scientist&as_brr=3&sig=qbXQOkJ5dnVJvEHNWDJ28og29KE#PPP1,M1 Click on this to read free book preview at Google: "Up Against Odds: Autobiography of an Indian Scientist". (South Asia Books, 1993. ISBN 817023364X)] ] .

References

External links

* [http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/jun102002/1404.pdf Article on Professor Piara Singh Gill]
* [http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/seta/2003/02/27/stories/2003022700170300.htm News Article on Professor Piara Singh Gill]
* [http://www.orientalia.org/us/B0006CDHKM/Scientific_papers_of_Prof._P._S._Gill.html Scientific papers of Professor Piara Singh Gill]
* [http://www.orientalia.org/us/817023364X/Up_Against_Odds_Autobiography_of_an_Indian_Scientist.html Autobiography of Professor Piara Singh Gill]
* [http://www.amazon.com/Up-Against-Odds-Autobiography-Scientist/dp/817023364X Autobiography 2 of Professor Piara Singh Gill]
* [http://prola.aps.org/search/field/author/Gill_P_S Research papers of Professor Piara Singh Gill]