Kalyana Thipperudraiah Mahanthappa

Background

Mahanthappa, Kalyana Thipperudraiah was born on October 29, 1934 in Hirehalli, Mysore, India. Son of Kalyana and Thippamma (Maddanappa) T.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Central College Bangalore, India, 1954; Master of Science, Delhi U., 1956; Doctor of Philosophy (Faculty Arts and Sciences fellow), Harvard, 1961.

Career

Research associate, University of California at Los Angeles, 1961-1963; assistant professor, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1963-1966; member, Institute Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, 1964-1965; associate professor physics, U. Colorado, Boulder, 1966-1969; professor, U. Colorado, since 1969; faculty research fellow, U. Colorado, 1970-1971, 76-77, 83-84, 93-94. Visiting professor/scientist U. Rome, 1970, International Center for Theoretical Physics, 1971, Cambridge U., 1976-1977. Consultant Aerojet-General, Los Angeles, 1962-1963.

Director Summer Institute Theoretical Physics, Boulder, 1968-1969, North Atlantic Treaty Organization Advanced Study Institute in Elementary Particles, 1979, North Atlantic Treaty Organization Advanced Research Workshop on Superstrings, 1987. General director Theoretical Advanced Study Institute in Particle Physics, since 1989. Senior visiting research fellow Imperial College, London, 1983-1984.

Achievements

• Kalyana Thipperudraiah Mahanthappa has been listed as a noteworthy Physicist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow American Physical Society. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, Sigma Xi.

Connections

Married Prameela Talkerappa, October 30, 1961. Children: Nagesh, Rudresh, Mahesh.

Father:

Kalyana T.

Mother:

Thippamma (Maddanappa) T.

Spouse:

Prameela Talkerappa

child:

Rudresh Mahanthappa

child:

Mahesh Mahanthappa

child:

Nagesh Mahanthappa