D V G L N Rao
University of Massachusetts, USA
Biography
D V G L N Rao had a brilliant academic record at Andhra University where he got the degrees BSc (Honors), MSc and DSc physics. He was a Postdoc for two years each at Duke and Harvard Universities and taught at UMass Boston for about fifty years starting in 1968. As Emeritus Professor he continues to guide graduate students. His group has a niche for optical Fourier techniques and low power nonlinear optics with biological materials. He published over 120 papers in prestigious journals like Nature, Physical Review Letters etc. and has ten patents, one of which on Fourier Phase Contrast Microscopy is licensed to industry for marketing the technology.
Abstract
Abstract : Optical Fourier holography with thin films of bacteriorhodopsin for cancer diagnostics