Avadh Behari Bhatia (1921–September 27, 1984[1]) was an Indian-Canadian physicist who studied electronic transport theory and diffraction of light by ultrasonic waves.
The couple were married in Rajasthan, India and lived in Gujarat for two years before Dr. Bhatia went to work at the University of Edinburgh under Max Born.
[5] With a fellowship from the National Research Council, he moved to Canada in 1953, joining the University of Alberta two years later.
Bhatia’s second wife, Helen Forrester, was a British-born Canadian novelist and memoir writer.
[5] Bhatia died after a long-term illness and is buried in Saint Anthony Cemetery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.