Prof Kaw Memorial
Professor Predhiman Krishan Kaw
Prof. Kaw Commemoration Day on 18 Jun 2026
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Top 10 Cited Papers of Prof. Kaw
Authors | Title | Source title | Volume | Issue | Art. No. | Year | Cited by |
J. F. Drake; P. K. Kaw; Y. C. Lee; G. Schmid; C. S. Liu; Marshall N. Rosenbluth | Parametric instabilities of electromagnetic waves in plasmas | Physics of Fluids | 17 | 4 | 778 | 1974 | 716 |
P. K. Kaw; A. Sen | Physics of Plasmas | 5 | 10 | 3552 | 1998 | 418 | |
P. Kaw; G. Schmidt; T. Wilcox | Filamentation and trapping of electromagnetic radiation in plasmas | Physics of Fluids | 16 | 9 | 1522 | 1973 | 398 |
M. R. Jana, A. Sen, and P. K. Kaw | Collective effects due to charge-fluctuation dynamics in a dusty plasma | Physical Review E | 48 | 5 | 3930 | 1993 | 347 |
Predhiman Kaw; John Dawson | Relativistic nonlinear propagation of laser beams in cold overdense plasmas | Physics of Fluids | 13 | 2 | 472 | 1970 | 325 |
P. Bandyopadhyay, G. Prasad, A. Sen, and P. K. Kaw | Experimental study of nonlinear dust acoustic solitary waves in a dusty plasma | Physical Review Letters | 101 | 6 | 65006 | 2008 | 237 |
Y. Sentoku, K. Mima, P. Kaw, and K. Nishikawa | Anomalous resistivity resulting from MeV-electron transport in overdense plasma | Physical Review Letters | 90 | 15 | 155001 | 2003 | 186 |
W. P. Leemans, C. E. Clayton, W. B. Mori, K. A. Marsh, P. K. Kaw, A. Dyson, C. Joshi, J. M. Wallace | Physical Review A | 46 | 2 | 1091 | 1992 | 178 | |
P. K. Kaw, A. Sen, and T. Katsouleas | Physical Review Letters | 68 | 21 | 3172 | 1992 | 176 | |
J. M. Finn; P. K. Kaw | Physics of Fluids | 20 | 1 | 72 | 1977 | 167 |
Professional Details
Year | Institute | Designation |
1967-1969 | Princeton University | Postdoctoral Fellow |
1969-1971 | Princeton University, USA | Research Staff & Lecturer; |
1971-1974 | Physical Research Laboratory, India | Associate Professor |
1974-1975 | Physical Research Laboratory, India | Professor |
1975-1982 | Princeton University, USA | Principal Research Physicist Lecturer in Astrophysical Sciences |
1982-1986 | Plasma Physics Programme, Physical Research Laboratory, India | Director |
1986-2012 | Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar, India | Director |
2012–2017 | Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar, India | DST Year of Science Professor |
Fellowship & Awards
Institution/Academy/ Society | Award | Year |
INSA | Young Scientist | 1974 |
I.A.Sc | F.A.Sc. | 1974 |
American Physical Society | Fellow | 1980 |
INSA | Fellow | 1984 |
Govt. of India | Padma Shri | 1985 |
CSIR | S.S. Bhatnagar Award | 1986 |
National Academy of Science | Fellow | 1987 |
Ghent University, Belgium | Doctor Honoris | 1991 |
IIT, Delhi | Distinguished Alumni Award | 1992 |
Indian Physics Association | R D Birla Award for Excellence in Physics | 2002 |
INSA | Albert Einstein Research Professorship | 2006 |
INSA | Vice-President | 2006 |
DST, New Delhi | J C Bose Fellowship | 2007 |
TWAS Prize in Physics | TWAS Council of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World | 2008 |
Association of Asia-Pacific Physical Societies (AAPPS) | Subramanyan Chandrasekhar Prize of Plasma Physics | 2015 |

Photo compilation of Floral Tribute to Prof Kaw on 18 Jun 2025 at IPR Library






