Professor Predhiman Krishan Kaw


Prof. Kaw Commemoration Day on 18 Jun 2026

 

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List of Posters


Book of Abstracts


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

Low frequency modes in strongly coupled dusty plasmas

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

Experiments and simulations of tunnel-ionized plasmas

Physical Review A

46

2

1091

1992

178

P. K. Kaw, A. Sen, and T. Katsouleas

Nonlinear 1D laser pulse solitons in a plasma

Physical Review Letters

68

21

3172

1992

176

J. M. Finn; P. K. Kaw

Coalescence instability of magnetic islands

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



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