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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsG P SrivastavaGanesh Prasad Srivastava was born in 1933. He obtained doctoral degree in microwave pressure broadening studies in 1957 from University of Allahabad. He pursued future research with Nobel Laureate Prof G Herzberg in National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada from 1960 to 1962 where he made significant contribution to the field of Microwave spectroscopy. He was the first to observe rotational transition in hydrogen bounded molecules. He also worked at the University of Sheffield (UK), University of Queensland (Australia), and University Piere-et-Marie Curie (France). In India he worked at different Universities and in 1974 he became Professor of Physics and in 1980, the Head of the department and the Dean of the Faculty of Science, Delhi University.In his research careers he has to his credit over 195 research publications in international journals spanning the fields of spectroscopy, semiconductor physics magnetism, quantum electronics and microwave superconductivity. He has contributed to many international conferences. As an academician, he played a key role in introducing electronics courses into regular science academic programs all over the country for undergraduate course on computer science. He was the first Head of the Department of Electronics Science and the first Dean of the Faculty of Interdisciplinary and Applied Sciences in University of Delhi. The microwave community has been benefited by him both as an active researcher and as an educator.He has organised many national as well as international conferences. He is one of the persons who is instrumental in establishing the Asia Pacific Microwave Conferences. At present he is actively leading a group working in the fields of high temperature superconducting microwave electronics in Delhi University.