Rajiah Simon, is a Professor of Physics at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences,

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Rajiah Simon received the

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (SSB) is a science award in India given annually by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for notable and outstanding research, Applied science, applied or Fundamenta ...

in 1993 for pioneering work in

Quantum optics Quantum optics is a branch of atomic, molecular, and optical physics dealing with how individual quanta of light, known as photons, interact with atoms and molecules. It includes the study of the particle-like properties of photons. Photons have b ...

. Simon and collaborators initiated the "Quantum theory of charged-particle beam optics", by working out the focusing action of a magnetic quadrupole using the

Dirac Equation In particle physics, the Dirac equation is a relativistic wave equation derived by British physicist Paul Dirac in 1928. In its free form, or including electromagnetic interactions, it describes all spin- massive particles, called "Dirac par ...

. R. Jagannathan, R. Simon, E. C. G. Sudarshan and

N. Mukunda Narasimhaiengar Mukunda (born 25 January 1939, New Delhi, India) is an Indian theoretical physicist. Mukunda's higher education began at Delhi University, where he was granted a B.Sc. (Hon) degree in 1953. For his Ph.D. he studied at University ...

Quantum theory of magnetic electron lenses based on the Dirac equation
Physics Letters A, 134, 457-464 (1989).

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Google Scholar Profile of Rajiah Simon
{{DEFAULTSORT:Simon, Rajiah 1948 births Living people Indian string theorists Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Physical Science