Protik Majumder | |
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Interim President of Williams College | |
In office January 2018 –July 1, 2018 | |
Preceded by | Adam Falk |
Succeeded by | Maud Mandel |
Personal details | |
Education | Yale University (BS) Harvard University (PhD) |
Protik "Tiku" Majumder (born 1960) is a physicist who is the Barclay Jermain Professor of Natural Philosophy at Williams College. [1] He was the interim president of Williams from December 2017 to July 2018,replacing Adam Falk,who left to become president of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. [2] He was replaced by Maud Mandel. [3]
Majumder was born in Kolkata and was raised in western Massachusetts. He graduated with a bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1982 and obtained his Ph.D. in atomic physics from Harvard University in 1989. He joined the faculty of Williams College in 1994. [1]
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