He was the founding Director Solid State Physics Laboratory, Delhi.
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He is now CNRS Research Director at the Solid State Physics laboratory in Orsay, head of the Electron Microscopy group.
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"In terms of techniques, it's a true tour de force, " said Dr . Denis Jerome, director of the solid state physics laboratory at the University of Paris-South in France and an author of an accompanying commentary in Nature.