T. V. Ramakrishnan

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T. V. Ramakrishnan
Statistical Mechanics
Awards
  • Trieste Science Prize
    (2005)
  • Padma Shri (2001)
  • FRS (2000)
  • Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award
    (1983)
Scientific career
Fields
  • Theoretical Physics
  • Condensed Matter Physics
InstitutionsBanaras Hindu University
Indian Institute of Science
Princeton University
Doctoral advisorJoaquin Mazdak Luttinger
Doctoral studentsVenkat Pai

Tiruppattur Venkatachalamurti Ramakrishnan

Benaras Hindu University and also the chancellor of Tripura University
.

Biography

Tiruppattur Venkatachalamurti Ramakrishnan was born on 14 August 1941 in

Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1966.[1]
He started his professional career as lecturer in the
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He shifted to the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1986 where he continued till 2003. He also served on the Physical Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize
from 2010 to 2013.

Ramakrishnan has made seminal contributions to the scaling theory of electron localization.

liquid to solid transition
and of mixed valence systems.

Awards and honours

He was awarded the

Fellow of the American Physical Society "for his contributions to the many-body theory of disordered systems, especially the scaling theory of localization and the theory of mixed-valent impurities" [6]

Ramakrishnan was elected a

Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2000.[7]
His certificate of election reads:

Professor Ramakrishnan has made crucial contributions to our understanding of condensed

rare-earth metals, his work on the inverse orbital degeneracy expansion has had a major effect on the field [8]

References

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  1. ^ "Curriculum Vitae of T. V. Ramakrishnan". Archived from the original on 6 October 2011. Retrieved 21 August 2011.
  2. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.42.673
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  3. ^ "Prizes and Awards". The World Academy of Sciences. 2016.
  4. ^ "Bhatnagar Award in Physical Sciences". CSIR. Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 21 August 2011.
  5. ^ "Padma Awards Directory" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 5 July 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 May 2013. Retrieved 21 August 2011.
  6. ^ "APS Fellow Archives". APS. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
  7. ^ "Tiruppattur Ramakrishnan". London: Royal Society. One or more of the preceding sentences may incorporate text from the royalsociety.org website where "all text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." "Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". Archived from the original on 20 February 2016. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  8. The Royal Society
    . Retrieved 20 March 2016.


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