Moti Lal Rustgi was born in Delhi, India, on Sept. 29, 1929. He received in Bachelor of Science and master's degree in Physics from Delhi University. He pursued his doctoral studies at Stanford University and later at Louisiana State University where he earned his doctorate in theoretical nuclear physics. In 1957 he went to Yale University as a research associate under Gregory Breit. In 1960 he began a postdoctoral fellowship divided between the National Research Council of Canada and Harvard University. Upon the completion of the fellowship, Rustgi returned to India to be a reader in Physics at Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi. In 1963 he assumed the position of Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.A year later he was hired as an Assistant Professor at Yale University. In 1966 he joined the faculty of the State University of New York at Buffalo as an Associate Professor and he was promoted to full Professor in 1968. He spent 24 years at the University teaching, writing, and pursuing his research interests. He taught courses in Physics, Electromagnetic Fields, Quantum Mechanics, Nuclear Theory, Statistical Mechanics, and Classical Electrodynamics. In 1973 and 1980 he held visiting appointments at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory respectively. Rustgi was a prolific researcher in the fields of medical, nuclear, atomic, and solid-state physics, with more than 145 articles published in scholarly journals and conference proceedings. In his distinguished career he served as a Fellow of the India Atomic Energy Commission at Delhi University, received grants to fund his research from the State University of New York Research Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the National Science Foundation. At the State University of New York at Buffalo, Rustgi he was an active participant in the University, the department, and the community. He served on numerous committees and directed graduate studies for his department. He was instrumental in founding the concentration in medical physics. He helped establish the Western New York Hindu Culture Society. For his contributions in the field of Physics he was made a fellow of the American Physical Society and was listed numerous times in Who's Who in America and American Men and Women of Science. Professor Rustgi died on Nov. 16, 1992 at the age of 63.
From the description of Moti Lal Rustgi papers, 1952-1992. (SUNY at Buffalo). WorldCat record id: 66462164
