Tiruppattur Venkatachalamurti Ramakrishnan (born 14 August 1941) is an Indian

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known for his contributions in

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. He is at present

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Homi Bhabha Professor of Physics at

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and also the chancellor of

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Biography

Tiruppattur Venkatachalamurti Ramakrishnan was born on 14 August 1941 in

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. He completed his B.Sc (Hons.) and

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in Physics from Banaras Hindu University in 1959 and 1961. He then worked as a CSIR

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at Banaras Hindu University from 1961 to 1962. He later completed his

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from

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in 1966. He started his professional career as lecturer in the

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) Hindi: भारतीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान कानपुर) is a public institute of technology located in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was ...

. He shifted to the

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in 1986 where he continued till 2003. He also served on the Physical Sciences jury for the

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from 2010 to 2013. Ramakrishnan has made seminal contributions to the scaling theory of electron localization. He has made contributions to the theory of liquid to solid transition and of mixed valence systems.

Awards and honours

He was awarded the

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in 1983,

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in 1990 and the

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in 2001. In 1987 he was elected a

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''"for his contributions to the many-body theory of disordered systems, especially the scaling theory of localization and the theory of mixed-valent impurities"'' Ramakrishnan was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2000. One or more of the preceding sentences may incorporate text from the royalsociety.org website where "all text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." His certificate of election reads:

References

1941 births Living people 20th-century Indian physicists Scientists from Chennai Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Physical Science Fellows of the American Physical Society Fellows of the Royal Society Banaras Hindu University alumni Banaras Hindu University faculty Indian condensed matter physicists Indian Institute of Science faculty Recipients of the Padma Shri in science & engineering TWAS laureates Rare earth scientists {{physicist-stub