Vipin Kumar Tripathi
{{short description|Indian plasma physicist}}
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| name = Vipin Kumar Tripathi
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1948|03|11}}
| birth_place = Jhansi, India
| honorific_prefix = Professor Emeritus
| alma_mater = (Msc Physics) Agra University
| main_interests =
| known_for = Plasma (physics)
| notable_works = Sadbhav Mission
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| discipline = Physics
| sub_discipline = Plasma
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Vipin Kumar Tripathi (alternately known as VK Tripathi; born 11 March 1948) is an Indian plasma physicist, activist, and a former Physics professor of the IIT Delhi.
Life and career
Tripathi was born in Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh on 11 March 1948. He did his Masters from Agra University and completed his PhD from IIT Delhi.{{cite news |author1=Shradha Chettri |title=Delhi: Meet the 71-year-old pamphlet man with a message of peace |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/meet-the-71-year-old-pamphlet-man-with-a-message-of-peace/articleshow/71696237.cms |access-date=16 January 2020 |publisher=Times of India |date=22 October 2019 |language=English}}
Tripathi started his career as a lecturer with IIT Delhi in 1970. He joined University of Maryland in 1976 as a Post-Doctoral Researcher and then a Research Associate. He was involved in the research on radio frequency heating of fusion plasma's in the university. In 1983, He joined IIT Delhi as a Professor of Physics where he served for about 30 years.{{cite web |title=Profile of Vipin Kumar Tripathi |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/37320273400 |website=IEEE |access-date=8 February 2020}}{{Cite web|title=Professor fights for Kashmir, armed with pamphlets|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/professor-fights-for-kashmir-armed-with-pamphlets/cid/1706570|website=Telegraph India|author1=Pheroze L. Vincent|access-date=9 February 2020}}
Tripathi established Sadbhav Mission in the aftermath of Bhagalpur riots in 1990, aiming develop a grassroots resistance against communalism and mobilizing people on basic issues like education, as stated on its official website. {{cite web |title=About Sadbhav Mission |url=http://www.sadbhavmission.org/about.html |website=Sadbhav Mission |access-date=8 February 2020}} Through the Sadbhav Mission has written and distributed pamphlets on the issues like Abrogation of Article 370{{cite web |author1=Pawanjot Kaur and Sunil Rawat |title=To Educate People on Kashmir, a 71-Year-Old Has Taken to the Streets All Alone |url=https://thewire.in/rights/watch-to-educate-people-on-kashmir-a-71-year-old-has-taken-to-the-streets-all-alone |website=The Wire |access-date=16 January 2020 |date=14 October 2019}} and CAA{{cite web |title=Retired IIT Professor's solitary campaign against the National Register of Citizens: Listen to VK Tripathi |url=https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/india/retired-iit-professors-solitary-campaign-against-the-national-register-of-citizens-listen-to-vk-tripathi |website=National Herald India |access-date=8 February 2020 |date=16 December 2019}} as a mode of protest.
Publications
Tripathi's publications include:{{cite web |title=V.K. Tripathi's research works |url=https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/2093627662_VK_Tripathi |website=ResearchGate |access-date=8 February 2020}}
- Parametric instabilities in laser produced plasmas.
- Thermonuclear fusion
- Plasma-aided radiation guiding in a free-electron laser
- Stimulated Brillouin scattering of a laser beam in a plasma channel
- Cherenkov Terahertz Generation by Electron Bunches in a Dielectric Lined Resonator
- Theoretical Modeling and Experimental Verification of the Permeability Measurements of Thick Films at Microwave Frequencies
- Laser wakefield bubble regime acceleration of electrons in a preformed non uniform plasma channel
- Plasmonics
- High power laser plasma interaction
- Fundamentals of plasma physics
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