Raj Pathria

Professor Raj Kumar Pathria is a theoretical physicist and an Urdu poet. Pathria is known for his work on Superfluidity in liquid helium, Lorentz transformation of thermodynamic quantities, a rigorous evaluation of lattice sums and finite-size effects in phase transitions. Pathria is also the author of a well-known graduate text book on Statistical Mechanics, which has recently appeared in its third edition. He also wrote a book on Relativity that has been published in a Dover edition.