Narender K. Sehgal

Narender K. Sehgal is an Indian physicist, scientific administrator, and science populariser. He was born in Lahore . He worked as Scientific Officer in the Theoretical Reactor Physics Division of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre. In 1963 he went to US for his MSc and PhD in particle physics from the University of Wisconsin. He became professor of physics at the Somali National University in Magadiscio, East Africa. He returned to India in 1978 as Visiting Scientist at the Space Applications Centre of Indian Space Research Organisation . In 1982 he joined the Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India. He was head of the National Council for Science and Technology Communication and later Vigyan Prasar, where he remained until his retirement in 2000.

Narendar K. Sehgal was born in 1940 in Lahore, now the capital city of Punjab in Pakistan. He was educated at his hometown. He excelled in academics. He won merit scholarship in matriculation in 1956, using which he entered Punjab University. He graduated with BSc in physics in 1960, winning one of the top ten merit certificates of the university. He immediately joined the Atomic Energy Establishments Training School from where he completed a oneyear postgraduate course in physics in August 1961. He was appointed Scientific Officer in the Theoretical Reactor Physics Division of BARC, where he worked for two years. In 1963 he found an opportunity to join the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, in US, from where he obtained his MSc in particle physics in 1965. He enrolled for PhD in University of WisconsinMadison, and earned his doctoral degree in 1969.

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