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| Born | Tiruppattur Venkatachalamurti Ramakrishnan (1941-08-14)14 August 1941 (age 84) Madras,Tamil Nadu, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater | Banaras Hindu University(B.Sc.)(M.Sc.) Columbia University(Ph.D.) |
| Known for | Contributions toTheoretical Condensed Matter Physics andStatistical Mechanics |
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| Institutions | Banaras Hindu University Indian Institute of Science Princeton University |
| Doctoral advisor | Joaquin Mazdak Luttinger |
| Doctoral students | Venkat Pai |
Tiruppattur Venkatachalamurti RamakrishnanFRS (born 14 August 1941) is an Indiantheoretical physicist renowned for his contributions tocondensed matter physics.[1] He served as theDAE Homi Bhabha Chair Professor in the Department of Physics atBanaras Hindu University (BHU) from 2003 to 2008 and has been anEmeritus Professor there since 2006. He is also a Distinguished Associate at theCentre for Condensed Matter Theory, Department of Physics,Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.[1]
Tiruppattur Venkatachalamurti Ramakrishnan was born on 14 August 1941 inMadras,Tamil Nadu. He completed hisB.Sc (Hons.) andM.Sc in Physics fromBanaras Hindu University in 1959 and 1961. He then worked as aCSIRresearch fellow atBanaras Hindu University from 1961 to 1962. He later completed hisPh.D. fromColumbia University in 1966.[2]He started his professional career as lecturer in theIndian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He shifted to theIndian Institute of Science,Bangalore in 1986 where he continued till 2003. He also served on the Physical Sciences jury for theInfosys Prize from 2010 to 2013.
Ramakrishnan has made seminal contributions to the scaling theory of electron localization.[3] He has made contributions to the theory ofliquid to solid transition and of mixed valence systems.
He was awarded theShanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in 1983,TWAS Prize in 1990[4] and thePadma Shri in 2001.[5][6] In 1987 he was elected aFellow 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"[7]
Ramakrishnan was elected aFellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2000.[8] His certificate of election reads:
Professor Ramakrishnan has made crucial contributions to our understanding of condensedmany body systems. His pioneering work started two major areas of activity. These are: theliquid-solidtransition as well as related phenomena in denseclassical systems, and the onset ofelectron localization in disordered systems. He has also made many significant contributions to their growth. In a third area, namelymixed valence inrare-earthmetals, his work on the inverseorbital degeneracy expansion has had a major effect on the field [9]
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