TV Ramakrishnan

TV Ramakrishnan

TV Ramakrishnan ( Tiruppattur Venkatachalamurti Ramakrishnan ; born August 14, 1941 in Madras ) is an Indian theoretical solid-state physicist.

Ramakrishnan studied physics at Banaras Hindu University with a bachelor's degree in 1959 and a master's degree in 1961 and received his doctorate in 1966 at Columbia University with Joaquin Mazdak Luttinger . He taught at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur (from 1977 as professor), 1984 to 1986 at Banaras Hindu University and 1986 to 2006 (retirement) at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore . Then he was again a professor (Homi Bhabha Professor of the Indian Atomic Energy Commission) at Banaras Hindu University. He is also Chancellor of Tripura University.

He is known for his contributions to Anderson localization (with Philip Warren Anderson , Elihu Abrahams , DC Licciardello 1979) and disordered electronic systems in solids, as well as the liquid-solid transition. He also dealt with rare earth systems with mixed valences (development after inverse orbital degeneration).

Ramakrishnan is a Fellow of the Royal Society (2000) and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society . He is a member of the Third World Academy of Sciences, the Indian National Science Academy and the Indian Academy of Sciences in Bangalore. In 2005 he became an external member of the Academie des Sciences in Paris. In 2004 he received an honorary doctorate from Banaras Hindu University.

In 1982 he received the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize , the TWAS Prize in 1990 and the Padma Shri in 2001 .

Fonts (selection)

• with Philip W. Anderson, Elihu Abrahams, DC Licciardello: Scaling Theory of Localization: Absence of Quantum Diffusion in Two Dimensions, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 42, 1979, p. 673, abstract
• with Patrick A. Lee : Disordered Electronic Systems. , Reviews of Modern Physics, Volume 57, 1985, p. 287

Web links

• Curriculum Vitae , Web Archive

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Appreciation from the Royal Society