Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar

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Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar (born August 6, 1930 in Calcutta , † March 8, 2004 ) was an Indian physicist. He is known for research on liquid crystals .

Chandrasekhar studied physics at Nagpur University with a diploma in 1951. He then worked at the Raman Research Institute in Bangalore with CV Raman , who was his mother's brother. In 1954 he received his doctorate from Nagpur University on the basis of his crystal-optical research carried out at the Raman Research Institute. He went on a scholarship to Cambridge University ( Cavendish Laboratory ), where he received his doctorate again. As a post-doctoral student , he was at University College London and the Royal Institution in London, where he worked on crystallography. In 1961 he went back to India as professor and head of the newly established physics faculty at the University of Mysore . It was there that he began to work with liquid crystals. In 1971 he returned to the Raman Research Institute as head of the liquid crystals department.

He discovered the columnar phase of liquid crystals (previously called discotic).

He was the founding president of the International Liquid Crystal Society. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society . In 1994 he received the Royal Medal and he received the Niels Bohr Gold Medal from UNESCO (1998) and the Padma Bhushan in 1998 . He became a Knight of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques in 1999 .

He was the editor of Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals magazine for twenty years .

Since it is sometimes abbreviated and quoted S. Chandrasekhar, it should not be confused with the astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (who is related to him).

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  • Liquid Crystals . Cambridge University Press, 1977/1993.

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SURNAME Chandrasekhar, Sivaramakrishna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian physicist
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Calcutta
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 2004