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Girish Agarwal

Indian American quantum optics physicistborn 1946

Wikidata names Emil Wolf as doctoral advisor. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 7 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Emil Wolf

The line above and below4 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

1 step up
stated by WikidataEmil Wolf
2 steps up
stated by WikidataEdward Linfoot
3 steps up
stated by WikidataG.H. Hardy
4 steps up
stated by WikidataAugustus Edward Hough Lovestated by WikidataE. T. Whittaker

Education and career9

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.

until 1964
Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University
studied
until 1966
Banaras Hindu University
studied
until 1969
University of Rochester
studied
1969 to 1971
University of Rochester
worked
1971 to 1973
University of Stuttgart
worked
1977 to 1995
University of Hyderabad
worked
undated
Texas A&M University
worked
undated
Oklahoma State University
worked
undated
Physical Research Laboratory
worked

At a glance

known as: physicist, university teacher
awards: Fellow of the Royal Society, 2008, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, 1982, Max Born Award, 1988, G.D. Birla Award for Scientific Research, 1995, Einstein Prize for Laser Science, 1994, Humboldt Prize, Fellow of the American Physical Society, Fellow of the Optical Society, TWAS Prize for Physics, 1994, Charles Hard Townes Award, 2022
member of: Royal Society of London, from 2008, Indian National Science Academy
Wikipedia: in 5 languages

stated by WikidataStated by Wikidata, shown apart from the thesis records.

Elsewhere9

identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaGirish Saran Agarwal
stated by WikidataWikidataQ1246404
stated by WikidataORCID0000-0002-8320-4708
stated by WikidataVIAF71995603
stated by WikidataGND142243221
stated by WikidataIdRef120065215
stated by WikidataISNI0000000110703058

papers

stated by WikidataGoogle ScholarMi9UYQkAAAAJ
stated by WikidataScopus55629866800

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@misc{academicancestry_Q1246404,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Girish Agarwal: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q1246404},
  note = {read on 2026-10-22}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 22). Girish Agarwal: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-22]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q1246404