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{{Infobox scientist
| name =Girish Saran Agarwal
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1946|07|07|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Bareilly, India]]
|field=[[theoretical physics]]
|awards=[[Max Born Award]] |honorific_suffix=[[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]]
| thesis_title = A c-number calculus for functions of non-commuting operators and phase space representation of quantum dynamical systems.{{Citation needed|date= August 2018}}
| thesis_url = http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17500451
| thesis_year = 1969
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| website = {{URL|https://baen.tamu.edu/people/agarwal-girish/}}
}}
'''Girish S. Agarwal''', Fellow of the Royal Society UK,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/girish-agarwal-10969/|title=Girish Agarwal {{!}} Royal Society|website=royalsociety.org|language=en-gb|access-date=2019-04-30}}</ref> (born 7 July 1946)<ref name="Awardee Details: Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize">{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/Detail.aspx?AID=336 |title=Awardee Details: Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |date=2019-04-30 |website=ssbprize.gov.in |access-date=2019-04-30}}</ref> is a [[Theoretical physics|theoretical physicist]]. He is currently at the [[Texas A&M University|Texas A & M University]] with affiliations to the Departments of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Physics and Astronomy, and the Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering.<ref name=":0" /> Earlier he worked as Noble Foundation Chair and the Regents Professor at the [[Oklahoma State University–Stillwater|Oklahoma State University]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://aglifesciences.tamu.edu/baen/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/09/CV_Agarwal.pdf|title=CV Prof. Agarwal|access-date=2019-04-30}}</ref> He is a recognized leader in the field of [[quantum optics]] and also has made major contributions to the fields of [[nonlinear optics]], [[nanophotonics]] and [[plasmonics]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Mi9UYQkAAAAJ&hl=en|title=Girish Agarwal - Google Scholar Citations|website=scholar.google.com|access-date=2019-04-30}}</ref> In 2013 he published the textbook "Quantum Optics",<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cambridge.org/9781107006409|title=Quantum Optics {{!}} Cambridge University Press|website=Cambridge University Press|language=en|access-date=2019-04-30}}</ref> covering a wide range of recent developments in the field, which has been well received by the community.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Optics-Girish-S-Agarwal-ebook/dp/B00A8ICCG4/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?__mk_de_DE=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&keywords=girish+agarwal&qid=1556605487&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull#customerReviews|title=Customer Reviews (Amazon)|access-date=2019-04-30}}</ref>

==Life==

Born in Bareilly, India, Agarwal studied physics at the [[Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University|Gorakhpur University]], Gorakhpur, India, (BSc in 1964)<ref name=":0" /> and [[Banaras Hindu University]] in Varanasi, India, (MSc in 1966).<ref name=":0" /> In 1969, he received his PhD from the [[University of Rochester]], USA, followed by post-doctoral appointments at the [[University of Rochester]], the [[University of Stuttgart]], Germany, and The Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India.<ref name=":0" /> In 1974, at the age of 28, he published his first monograph "Quantum Statistical Theories of Spontaneous Emission and their Relation to other Approaches" at Springer.<ref>{{Citation|last=Agarwal|first=G. S.|chapter=Quantum statistical theories of spontaneous emission and their relation to other approaches|date=1974|pages=1–128|editor-last=Höhler|editor-first=G.|series=Springer Tracts in Modern Physics|publisher=Springer Berlin Heidelberg|language=en|doi=10.1007/bfb0042382|isbn=9783540379188|title=Quantum Optics|volume=70}}</ref> This book on light-matter interaction and spontaneous decay has since been a standard reference for quantum optics researchers worldwide.

After a few years at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and the Institute of Science, Mumbai, India, he was appointed in 1977 full professor at the [[University of Hyderabad]], [[India]], where he had the major responsibility to set up the School of Physics.<ref name=":0" /> In 1995, Girish S. Agarwal was appointed Director and Distinguished Scientist of the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad, India.<ref name=":0" /> From 1995 - 2000 he served additionally as Honorary Professor at the [[Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research]], Bangalore, India, and from 2001 - 2005 held the Einstein Centenary Research Professorship of the [[Indian National Science Academy]]. Numerous guest professorships have taken him to the major centers of optics and quantum optics throughout the world, including the [[University of Rochester]], [[Texas A&M University|Texas A & M University]], [[College Station, Texas|College Station]], the [[University of Colorado]], [[Boulder, Colorado|Boulder]], the [[Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics|Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics]], [[Garching bei München|Garching]], [[Germany]], the [[Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light|Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Light]], [[Erlangen]], [[Germany]], the Universities of [[Essen]], [[Ulm]], and [[Erlangen]], [[Germany]], the [[TU Wien|Technical University of Vienna]], [[Austria]], and the [[University of Manchester]], [[United Kingdom|UK]].<ref name=":0" />

As a scientist he served the international optics and quantum optics community by organizing schools and symposia, e.g., at the [[International Centre for Theoretical Physics|International Center for Theoretical Physics]] (ICTP), [[Trieste]], [[Italy]], for the benefit of the scientists from third world countries. He also spearheaded the efforts of the Indian Government's Department of Science and Technology to build up the infrastructure in the Physics Departments of Indian Universities. He also has served on the editorial board of various leading journals in optics and quantum optics, including [[Physical Review A]].

== Awards ==
Girish S. Agarwal has received awards for his achievements in the field of optics and quantum optics.<ref name=":0" /> This includes the Humboldt Research Award, Germany (1997),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/pub_lynen_host_query.humboldtianer_details?p_externe_id=7000146487&p_lang=en&p_pattern=agarwal|title=Humboldt Foundation Profile|website=www.humboldt-foundation.de|access-date=2019-04-30}}</ref> the Max-Born Award of the Optical Society of America, USA (1988),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.osa.org/en-us/awards_and_grants/awards/award_description/maxborn/|title=Max Born Award - Winners|access-date=2019-04-30}}</ref> the Einstein Medal of the Optical and Quantum Electronics Society, USA (1994), the Third World Academy of Sciences Prize in Physics (1994),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://twas.org/directory/agarwal-girish-saran|title=Agarwal, Girish Saran|website=TWAS|language=en|access-date=2019-04-30}}</ref> the Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Award in Physical Sciences by the Government of India (1982) the Honoris causa of the University of Liege, Belgium (2007), and of the University of Hyderabad, India (2011), an Elected Fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences (1997), an Elected Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi (1985),<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.insaindia.res.in/detail/N85-0893|title=INSA :: Indian Fellow Detail|website=www.insaindia.res.in|access-date=2019-04-30}}</ref> an Elected Fellow of the Optical Society of America (1986), an Elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore (1981), and an Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (1981).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm|title=APS Fellow Archive|website=www.aps.org|language=en|access-date=2019-04-30}}</ref> He was invited to the Sir JC Bose Chair at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, India, and the JRD Tata Chair at The Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India. In 2012 he was recognized by the Oklahoma State University by the "Eminent Faculty Award".

== References ==
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== Selected publications ==
* ''Quantum statistical theories of spontaneous emission and their relation to other approaches'', Springer Tracts in Modern Physics Band 70, 1974
* ''Quantum Optics'', Cambridge University Press 2012
* Publisher ''Selected Papers on Fundamentals of Quantum Optics'', SPIE Press 1995
* Publisher ''Selected Papers on Resonant and Collective Phenomena in Quantum Optics'', SPIE Press 1995

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