Ravindra Sudan
Ravindra N. Sudan (called Ravi Sudan ; born June 8, 1931 in Chinani, Kashmir , India , † January 22, 2009 in Saint Petersburg ) was an Indian-American electrical engineer and physicist who dealt with plasma physics.
Sudan studied at Punjab University (bachelor's degree in 1948) and the India Institute of Science, where he received his diploma in 1952. In 1955 he received his PhD in electrical engineering from Imperial College London , where he was a Tata Fellow. He then worked as an engineer with the British Thomson Houston Company until 1957 and then with Imperial Chemical Industries.
From 1958 he was a scientist at Cornell University (in the electrical engineering laboratory of Simpson left). The research he carried out there on current cut-off devices led him to plasma physics. In 1959 he became assistant professor there and in 1968 professor for electrical engineering and applied physics. From 1975 he was IBM Professor of Engineering and from 1975 to 1985 the director of the Laboratory for Plasma Studies. Since 2001 he has been Professor Emeritus. In 1968 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society .
In 1984 he founded the Cornell Theory Center with Kenneth Wilson and was its deputy director from 1985 to 1987. In 1970/71 he headed the theoretical plasma physics department at the US Naval Research Laboratory . From 1970 to 1973 he was a visiting scientist at the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste and in 1975 at the Institute for Advanced Study . In 1983 he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Fusion Research at the University of Texas at Austin .
In 1963 he independently discovered Whistler instability (which, as Whistler, causes audible low-frequency radio wave emissions in the magnetosphere ). He pioneered the study of the generation and propagation of intense ion beams and dealt with the theory of plasma instabilities and plasma turbulence.
In 1989 he received the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics . In 1994 he received the gold medal of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences.
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| SURNAME | Sudan, Ravindra |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sudan, Ravi; Sudan, RN; Sudan, Ravindra N. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 8, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chinani , Kashmir , India |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 22, 2009 |
| Place of death | Saint Petersburg , Florida |