Physicist, Philanthropist gifts $11 million to UCLA
Atlanta sources have stated that an $11 million gift to UCLA from physicist and philanthropist Mani Bhaumik will establish a center devoted to advancing knowledge of the basic laws of nature where Mani L. Bhaumik Institute for Theoretical Physics is intended to become a world-leading center for theoretical physics research and intellectual inquiry.
It is stated that Bhaumik’s donation is the largest in the history of both UCLA’s department of physics and astronomy and the UCLA Division of Physical Sciences and he is the faculty, postdoctoral researchers and graduate students at the Bhaumik Institute will address unanswered questions in all areas of theoretical physics.
It is also added that Bhaumik has risen from poverty to become an eminent scientist who played a key role in developing the laser technology that paved the way for Lasik eye surgery and was born in a remote village in West Bengal, India, and as a child slept on rags in the thatched-roof mud hut he has shared with his parents and six siblings. His gift is part of the $4.2 billion UCLA Centennial Campaign, which is scheduled to conclude in December 2019 during UCLA’s 100th anniversary year.