Key facts
- Born
- 14 August 1941, Chennai
- State of birth
- Chennai, Tamil Nadu
- Sector
- Science & space
- Profession
- Indian physicist
- Gender
- Male
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Biography
Tiruppattur Venkatachalamurti Ramakrishnan FRS is an Indian theoretical physicist renowned for his contributions to condensed matter physics. He served as the DAE Homi Bhabha Chair Professor in the Department of Physics at Banaras Hindu University (BHU) from 2003 to 2008 and has been an Emeritus Professor there since 2006. He is also a Distinguished Associate at the Centre for Condensed Matter Theory, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
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Timeline
- 1941Born in Chennai
- 1982Awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology
- 1990Awarded the TWAS Prize for Physics
- 2000Awarded the Fellow of the Royal Society
- 2001Awarded the Padma Shri in science & engineering
- 2005Awarded the Trieste Science Prize
- 2012Awarded the H K Firodia awards
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