Narinder Kumar Gupta is Professor of Mechanics at a public institution that was declared to be Institute of National Importance by Government of India under what?
Narinder Kumar Gupta Narinder Kumar Gupta (born 22 August 1942 in Mirpur, Jammu and Kashmir, India, (now in PoK)), also known as N. K. Gupta is Professor of Mechanics at the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi. Gupta works in the area of large deformations of metals and composites at low, medium and high rates of loading. His researches stimulate the development of constitutive behaviour of materials, understanding of the basic mechanics of large deformation, design for crashworthiness of road and air vehicles, design for safety in defence applications and in design of metal forming processes.
Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar(Odia: )is an autonomous research institution of the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Government of India. The Institute is entirely the brainchild of legendary and visionary academic and administrator, Late Professor Bidhu Bhusan Das, who was Director of Public Instruction, Odisha, at that time. Prof. Das had dreamed of a world class institute devoted to physics in Odisha owing to his cognizance of the large number of outstanding professors and scholars of physics from Odisha. Prof. Das set it up in 1972, supported by the Government of Odisha under the patronage of late Shri Banamali Patnaik, who was Odisha's education minister at that time, and it was Prof. Das who chose Dr. Trilochan Pradhan as its first director, when the Institute started theoretical research programs in the various branches of physics. Prof. Das tapped the talent and expertise - among others - of two internationally renowned physicists in the Institute's early days: Prof. T. P. Das, of SUNY, Albany, New York, USA and Prof. Jagdish Mohanty of IIT Kanpur and Australian National University, Canberra. In 1981 the Institute moved to its present campus near Chandrasekharpur, Bhubaneswar. The Institute was taken over by the DAE on March 25, 1985 and started functioning as an autonomous body.