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| Born | March 30, 1933 Ramdas near Amritsar, India |
| Nationality | U.S. and Canada |
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Raj Kumar Pathria (born March 30, 1933) is a theoretical physicist, a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at University of Waterloo, and an Urdu poet.[1][2]
Pathria is known for his work on superfluidity in liquid helium, Lorentz transformation of thermodynamic quantities, an exact evaluation of lattice sums and finite-size effects in phase transitions.
Pathria is also the author of a graduate textbook on statistical mechanics,[3] whose fourth edition appeared in the year 2021. He also wrote a book on relativity that was published as a Dover edition in the year 2003.[4]
- ^ Men of Sciences & Technology in India, Edited by Raj K Khosla, Premier Publishers (India), New Delhi, 1967, page P-20.
- ^ Men of Education in India (Distinguished Who's Who), Compiled by C L Khosla, Premier Publishers (India), New Delhi, 1965, page 211.
- ^ Graduate level text book on Statistical Mechanics
- ^ Dover edition of the book on relativity