Rashmi C. Desai is an Indian-American physicist, professor emeritus of physics at the University of Toronto.
He first studied physics at the University of Mumbai, where he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in 1957. He worked as a scientific officer at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Mumbai, India, from 1957 to 1962. [1]
He then moved to the US and earned a Ph.D from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, in 1966 before working as a research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts from 1966 to 1968. In the latter year he joined the University of Toronto as an assistant professor, becoming a full professor in 1978, a position he held until his retirement in 2006.
From the University of Toronto, Desai was awarded the status of Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2001 [2] [3] after being nominated by the Topical Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, [4] for applications of statistical mechanics to materials science, including: phase separation and ordering kinetics in systems with competing interactions, Langmuir films, ferromagnetic films, epitaxially grown solid films, order-order transitions in polymers.
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