Ramamurti Rajaraman

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Ramamurti Rajaraman (born March 11, 1939 in Coimbatore , then British India , now India ) is an Indian theoretical physicist.

Rajaraman studied at the University of Delhi with a bachelor's degree in 1958 and received his doctorate in theoretical nuclear physics in 1963 under Hans Bethe at Cornell University . As a post-doctoral student , he was at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and at Cornell, and at the Institute for Advanced Study 1967-1969 (and again 1973-1975). From 1969 to 1976 he was professor at the University of Delhi, from 1976 to 1993 at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore and from 1994 professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University .

He was visiting scholar at Harvard University, MIT, CERN, Stanford University, and the University of Illinois .

He dealt with the three-body problem in nuclear physics and other problems in nuclear physics with few and many particles, with quantum field theory and high-energy physics of strong interaction , theoretical elementary particle physics, statistical mechanics and solitons , on which he wrote a monograph. In the 1990s, he mainly dealt with problems in solid state physics such as the quantum Hall effect .

He also deals with fissile material in nuclear energy, especially in India and Pakistan, cooperation between the USA and India in the nuclear field, accidents with nuclear weapons, nuclear disarmament and proliferation, civilian use of nuclear energy and similar issues. With Frank von Hippel , he heads the International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM), which publishes an annual report on fissile material .

In 2014 he received the Leo Szilard Lectureship Award and in 1983 the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology. He is a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and the Indian National Science Academy.

Fonts

  • Solitons and instantons: An introduction to solitons and instantons in quantum field theory, North Holland 1982
  • India's Nuclear Energy Program: Future Plans, Prospects and Concerns. New Delhi: Academic Foundation, 2013

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Bethe, Ramamurti Rajaraman: The Three Body Problem in Nuclear Matter . In: Rev. Mod. Phys . tape 39 , 1967, p. 745 (English).
  2. ↑ International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM)
personal data
SURNAME Rajaraman, Ramamurti
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian physicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Coimbatore , then British India , now India