Born in idyllic Goa, then a colony of the Portuguese in India, Nitant Kenkre grew up in a family of artists. He was devoted to literature but pursued a scientific career, studying electrical engineering in IIT Bombay and theoretical physics at Stony Brook where he obtained his Ph. D. in 1971. He is a distinguished professor at the University of New Mexico (USA), the founding director of a center in his university dedicated to international collaboration and interdisciplinary research in theoretical physics, and an elected Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His publications include two books and more than 250 articles on his scientific research. He is an international leader in his field and has received many awards for his work. His poetry is direct, accessible, and has a light but obvious philosophical underpinning. For more information see: http://panda.unm.edu/kenkre and http://consortium.unm.edu
