Sadiqali Abbas Rangwala

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Sadiqali Abbas Rangwala (born 10 July 1971) is an Indian physicist. He is working in the field of Experimental atomic, molecular and optical physics. [1] He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in 2014. [2] [3] [4] He has made outstanding contribution on collisionally cooled ions with trapped atoms leading to new ultracold ion-atom physics. [5]

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