T. V.

Ramakrishnan
Tiruppattur Venkatachalamurti Ramakrishnan FRS
(born 14 August 1941) is an Indian theoretical physicist known for his contributions in condensed matter
physics. He is at present DAE Homi Bhabha Professor of
Physics at Benaras Hindu University and also the Chancellor of Tripura University. He was awarded the Shanti
Swarup Bhatnagar Award in 1983 and the Padma Shri in
2001.[1][2]

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Biography

Tiruppattur Venkatachalamurti Ramakrishnan was born

on 14 August 1941 in Madras, Tamil Nadu. He completed his B.Sc (Hons.) and M.Sc in Physics from
Banaras Hindu University in 1959 and 1961. He then
worked as a CSIR Research Fellow at Banaras Hindu University from 1961 to 1962. He later completed his Ph.D.
from Columbia University in 1966.[3] He started his professional career as lecturer in the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He shifted to the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1986 where he continued till 2003.
Ramakrishnan has made seminal contributions to the
scaling theory of electron localization.[4] He has made
contributions to the theory of liquid to solid transition and
of mixed valence systems.

Awards and honours

Ramakrishnan was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society

(FRS) in 2000.[5] His certicate of election reads:

References

[1] Bhatnagar Award in Physical Sciences. CSIR. Retrieved

2011-08-21.
[2] Padma Awards Directory (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2011-07-05. Retrieved 201108-21.
[3] Curriculum Vitae of T. V. Ramakrishnan. Retrieved
2011-08-21.
[4] Phys. Rev. Lett. 42, 673 (1979): Scaling Theory of
Localization: Absence of Quantum Diusion in Two Dimensions.

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