H. C. Verma

Harish Chandra Verma (born 8 April 1952) is an Indian experimental physicist and professor emeritus of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. His field of research is nuclear physics. He has authored several school, undergraduate and graduate textbooks, the most popular being the two-volume Concepts of Physics. He has co-founded Shiksha Sopan, a social upliftment organization for economically weaker children living near the campus of IIT Kanpur. He has been awarded the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Shiksha Puruskar by the Bihar state government. In 2020, the Government of India awarded him the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian award. Verma was born in Darbhanga, Bihar. His father was a teacher in Samastipur. After he passed high school, he obtained his B. Sc. degree at the Patna Science College. He obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur.

IIT Kanpur 

Verma joined IIT Kanpur in 1994 as an assistant professor. Here he pursued research in experimental nuclear physics. He has published 139 research papers. He retired on 30 June 2017.

Awards

• Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Shiksha Purashkar (2017)
• Padma Shri (2020)

Book Name	Links
Concepts of Physics Part-1, Bharati Bhawan Publishers & Distributors, 1992, ISBN 8177091875
Concepts of Physics Part-2, Bharati Bhawan Publishers & Distributors, 1992, ISBN 8177092324
Quantum Physics, Surya Publication, ISBN 9788192571409
Foundation Science Physics for class 9, Bharati Bhawan Publishers & Distributors, ISBN 9788177097313
Foundation Science Physics for class 10, Bharati Bhawan Publishers & Distributors, ISBN 9350270064