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Raj Kumar Pathria (born March 30, 1933) is a theoretical physicist, a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at University of Waterloo, and an Urdu poet. Pathria is known for his work on superfluidity in liquid helium, Lorentz transformation of thermodynamic quantities, an exact evaluation of lattice sums and finite-size effects in phase transitions. Pathria is also the author of a graduate textbook on statistical mechanics, whose fourth edition appeared in the year 2021. He also wrote a book on relativity that was published as a Dover edition in the year 2003.