Nyayapathi Venkata Vykunta Jagannadha Swamy 

June 13, 2013

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Nyayapathi Venkata Vykuntha Jagannadha Swamy, known to his relatives, friends, and colleagues as “Dr. Swamy”, 89, a resident of Stillwater and Professor Emeritus at Oklahoma State University, passed away on June 13, 2013, in his hometown of Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India, where he was born on March 28, 1924. Swamy completed his doctorate in 1958, in Theoretical Nuclear Physics at Florida State University and joined the faculty of the physics department at Oklahoma State University in 1963, the first Indian-American professor at the university. He taught at Oklahoma State until 1965. After that, he returned to India for three years and came back to rejoin OSU as associate professor of physics in 1968. In 1977, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. Swamy was a mathematical physicist, well known for his contributions to the physics of relativistic harmonic oscillator which found wide applications in atomic, nuclear, and high energy physics. He was also well known for his group theoretical contributions to mathematical physics.