Sudhansu Shekhar Jha, Indian physicist (Vijay Nagar, Bihar 25 December 1940 – 

Authored over 150 articles

Performed pioneering work on time-dependent conductivity of nonequilibrium carriers and calculations of optical nonlinearities in bulk semiconductors and insulators

Predicted theoretically the optical second-order nonlinearity at metal and semiconductor surfaces 

Formulated a generalized pairing theory of superconductivity in high Tc layered materials

With G.S. Kino. A variational technique for determining the propagating modes of a finite plasma. Jour. Electr. Control 14:167-85, 1963

With B.S. Shastry & A.K. Rajagopal. New self-consistent quasi-static approximation for screening and plasma dispersion in the electron gas. Phys. Rev. B9:2000-3, 1974

With L.K. Chavda. Approximate solution for spherical implosions of coalesced weak shocks in a plasma. Phys. Rev. A15:1289-96, 1977