Jogesh Pati started his schooling at Guru Training School, Baripada and then admitted to
M.K.C High School where he passed the Matriculation. He was admitted in MPC College and passed I Sc. Pati earned B.Sc. from
Ravenshaw College,
Utkal University in 1955; M.Sc. from
Delhi University in 1957; and Ph.D. from
University of Maryland, College Park in 1961. He is a professor emeritus at the
University of Maryland in the
Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics and physics department, which are part of the
University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences. Pati has made pioneering contributions to the notion of a unification of
elementary particles –
quarks and
leptons – and of their
gauge forces:
weak,
electromagnetic, and
strong. His formulation, carried out in collaboration with
Nobel Laureate Abdus Salam, of the original gauge theory of quark–lepton unification, and their resulting insight that violations of
baryon and lepton numbers, especially those that would manifest in
proton decay, are likely consequences of such a unification, provide cornerstones of modern particle physics today. The suggestions of Pati and Salam (the
Pati–Salam model) of the symmetry of SU(4)–color,
left–right symmetry, and of the associated existence of right-handed
neutrinos, now provide some of the crucial ingredients for understanding the observed masses of the neutrinos and their oscillations. ==Recognition==