Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar

Not to be confused with his cousin Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-American astrophysicist and Nobel laureate.
In this Indian name, the name Sivaramakrishna is a patronymic, and the person should be referred to by the given name, Chandrasekhar.

Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar
FNA, FRS
Born(1930-08-06)6 August 1930
Calcutta, British India
Died8 March 2004(2004-03-08) (aged 73)
Bengaluru, India
Parents
Relatives
AwardsRoyal Medal (1994)
Eringen Medal (1996)

Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar FNA, FRS (6 August 1930 – 8 March 2004)[1] was an Indian physicist who won the Royal Medal in 1994.[2] He was the founder-president of the International Liquid Crystal Society.[3]

Chandrasekhar was born on 6 August 1930 at Kolkata, to Sitalaxmi [d] (sister of C.V. Raman) and Sivaramakrishnan [d].[4][5] He received his MSc 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.

  1. ^ Gray, G. W.; Luckhurst, G. R.; Raynes, E. P. (2007). "Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar. 6 August 1930 -- 8 March 2004: Elected FRS 1983". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 53: 127. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2007.0015. S2CID 72944918.
  2. ^ "Royal Medal Winners: 2007 - 1990". Retrieved 6 December 2008.
  3. ^ "Prof. S. Chandrashekhar dead". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 9 March 2004. Archived from the original on 8 May 2004. Retrieved 22 July 2009.
  4. ^ Rajaram Nityananda; Kausalya Ramaseshan; N. V. Madhusudana; George William Series (April 2013). "S Pancharatnam (1934–1969): Three phases". Resonance. 18 (4): 301–305. doi:10.1007/S12045-013-0046-Y. ISSN 0971-8044. Wikidata Q125516639.
  5. ^ Uma Parameswaran (2011). C.V. Raman : A Biography. Penguin India. ISBN 978-0-14-306689-7. OCLC 772714846. OL 27632780M. Wikidata Q125503928.