This person has a Tamil name without a surname. Chandrasekar - name, Sivaramakrishna - middle name
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Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekar ( August 6, 1930 , Calcutta - March 8, 2004 ) - Indian physicist. Member of the Indian National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society of London (1983), the last in 1994 awarded the Royal Medal . Founding Director of the International Society for Liquid Crystals .
He received a master's degree in physics from Nagpur University in 1951. Then he works at the Research Institute. Ramana in Bangalore over a doctorate in physics under the guidance of her maternal uncle C.V. Ramana . The main topic of his research was related to measuring the dispersion of optical activity in several crystals. In 1954, he received his doctorate from Nagpur University. Soon he moved to the Cavendish Laboratory and received a second doctorate from Cambridge University - mainly for his work on corrections for the attenuation of neutrons and scattered X-rays after passing through the crystal. His further work at the College of the University and the Royal Institute was also connected with the tasks of crystallography. He returned to India in 1961 and became the first head of the Department of Physics at the University of Mysore . There he turned his attention to liquid crystals .
Member of Indian National Academy of Sciences. Member of the Royal Society of London (1983).
Publications and Awards
In 1977, his book on liquid crystals was published at Cambridge University Press . It is popular among workers in this field and has been translated into Russian and Japanese. The supplemented second edition of the book was released in 1992.
- (1972)
- (1986)
- Royal Medal of the Royal Society of London (1994)
- (1996)
- UNESCO Niels Bohr Gold Medal (1998)
- Padma Bhushan (1998)
- Cavalier of the Order of the Academic Palms (1999)
Bibliography
- C. Chandrasekar Liquid crystals. - M .: Mir, 1980 .-- 344 p.
Literature
- The International Who's Who 2004, p. 298 (Europa Publications, 2003)
Notes
- ↑ Record # 12322017k // general catalog of the National Library of France