Krityunjai Prasad Sinha

[1][note 1] Born in Akhtiyarpur, in the Indian state of Bihar, KP Sinha passed his matriculation examination in 1944 and completed the intermediate studies in 1946 before joining Allahabad University to earn a BSc in 1948.

[2] Subsequently, on completion of his MSc in 1950 from the same institution, he enrolled at Savitribai Phule Pune University for his doctoral studies under the guidance of GI Finch and secured a PhD in solid state physics in 1956.

[3] Moving to the UK, Sinha did his post-doctoral work at the laboratory of Maurice Henry Lecorney Pryce during 1957-59, and his studies there in theoretical physics earned him a second PhD from the University of Bristol in 1965.

On his return to India in 1970, he joined the Indian Institute of Science as a senior professor at the department of physics, commencing a service which would last over three and a half decades.

[7] His early work during his doctoral and post-doctoral days was based on condensed matter theory, semiconductors, quantum well, Cold Fusion, phonons, and photon-induced effects in solids.

He elucidated superconductivity at high temperatures by way of a non-equilibrium mechanism[8] and also developed a statistical theory on the origin of ferroelectricity and structural phase transitions induced by cooperative Jahn-Teller effect; his work on the magnetism is described in one of his books.

[9] The luminescence efficiency of solids, Ricci scalar curvature, super strong gravity, singularity free cosmology, and low energy nuclear reactions are some other areas he has worked on.