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Aug 06, 1930 Kolkata, West Bengal, India Died on 08 Mar 2004 (aged 73)
Indian physicist
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About Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar
- Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar FNA, FRS (6 August 1930 – 8 March 2004) was an Indian physicist who won the Royal Medal in 1994.
- He was the founder-president of the International Liquid Crystal Society.Chandrasekhar was born on 6 August 1930 at Kolkata.
- He received his M Sc degree in physics with first rank from Nagpur University in 1951.
- Subsequently, he joined the Raman Research Institute (RRI), Bangalore to work for his doctoral degree in physics under the guidance of his maternal uncle, C.
- V.
- Raman.
- The main topic of his research was related to optical rotatory dispersion measurements on several crystals.
- He received the D Sc degree from Nagpur University in 1954.
- Then he went to the Cavendish Laboratory on an 1851 Exhibition Scholarship and obtained a second doctorate degree from Cambridge University mainly for his work on the corrections for extinction in neutron and X-ray scattering from crystals. His subsequent postdoctoral work in the University College and the Royal Institution at London also dealt with crystallographic problems.
- He returned to India in 1961 as the first Head of the Department of Physics, which had just been started in the University of Mysore at Mysore.
- It was here that he turned his attention to liquid crystals, a subject which at that time was just coming out of a long hibernation.
