Background
Mohapatra was born in the small village Musagadia in Mayurbhanj State.
physicist university professor
Mohapatra was born in the small village Musagadia in Mayurbhanj State.
He studied at Utkal University in Bhubaneswar (bachelor"s degree 1964) and the University of Delhi (master"s degree 1966). In 1969 he earned his Doctor of Philosophy under Robert Marshak at the University of Rochester.
Subsequently he was a post-doc at Stony Brook University and at the University of Maryland. In the academic year 1980/1 he was a visiting professor at Max Planck Institute for Physics. Since 1983 he has been a professor at the University of Maryland.
He was a visiting professor at European Organization of Nuclear Research (1976, 1981, 1985), at SLAC, at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
From 2005 to 2007 he was a visiting professor at Technology Union München. Mohapatra works on GUTs, unified theories of elementary particles, and neutrino physics.
In particular he, with G. Senjanovic, developed in the 1970s left-right symmetric unified theories (which are then spontaneously broken to the observed theories of electroweak interactions with parity violation) with prediction of a neutrino Massachusetts In 2009 he received an honorary doctorate from North Orissa University in India (2009).
Since 1987 he has been a member of the Indian Academy of Sciences.