Background
Nautam Bhagwanlal Bhait was born on April 10, 1909 in Jamnagar, Gujarat, India.
lecturer physicist senior scientist assistant professor
Nautam Bhagwanlal Bhait was born on April 10, 1909 in Jamnagar, Gujarat, India.
Nautam Bhagwanlal Bhait had his schooling in Bhavnagar and early college education at Samaldas College, Bhavnagar, Gujarat. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the Gujarat College in Ahmedabad. He then received his Master of Science degree in physics under the Nobel Laureate, C. V. Raman, at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. Following a year of teaching at Samaldas College, Bhatt was awarded a fellowship by the Maharaja of Bhavnagar to pursue the doctorate program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he earned his Doctor of Philosophy degree in physics in 1939.
Nautam Bhagwanlal Bhait has started his career under Dr. CV Raman in Indian Institute of Science as Scholar of Physics. After Indian Independence he started to work for country and founded "Defense Science Laboratory" and worked for development of defense technologies.
His Major Contributions for science and technology are:
Development and deployment of the VT Fuse for the Department of Defense in the mid-1960s.
Nautam Bhagwanlal Bhait designed the acoustics of several moderate sized concert halls specifically for Indian Classical Music for a more natural sound.
He established the Solid State Physics Laboratory in Delhi and was its founding Director.
He established the Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute (CEERI), Pilani.
Nautam Bhagwanlal Bhait founded the Electrical Communications Engineering Department at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
He was a founding member of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE).
