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his students and that research was an international activity, even if this brought with it the risk of losing talented students to other institutions. After retiring, Ramakrishnan continued to teach and inspire. In the last decades of his life, several high school students and undergraduates came to his home in Madras to learn with him, subsequently pursuing higher studies in the United States towards a career of research.
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Ramakrishnan travelled and lectured extensively during his years at Matscience, holding lectures at over 200 centers of learning. He was unusually generous with providing opportunity and leave for his Ph.D. students to travel to centers of learning abroad, firmly believing that this was of benefit to
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visited India and was impressed by the small group of students trained by Ramakrishnan. While in India, Bohr visited Dr. Ramakrishnan's family home, and inspired the creation of an institute for advanced research. With Bohr's recommendation and with support from the then prime minister of India,
304:. Ramakrishnan's work on Product Densities that he did while at TIFR was good enough work for a PhD. But he stayed in Manchester for two more years to complete his residency requirements. His work on Product Densities appeared in the Proceedings of the 340:(house with a mango tree). In the seminar he presented lectures on the latest advances in theoretical physics to a small group of students, and invited leading scientists from the world to address the students. In 1960, nobel laureate 315:
in Princeton. It was the Institute of Advanced Study that inspired him to start a similar institution in India. Ramakrishnan is noted for his work in quantum mechanics on giving a prescription for transition from
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During the 1950s, he worked on the problem of Fluctuating Density Field, and published a series of eight papers on the subject. During 1957–1958 Ramakrishnan visited the
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After his return to Madras (Chennai) from the Institute for Advanced Study in 1958, Ramakrishnan began a Theoretical Physics Seminar in his family home
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in the then Madras. Chandrasekhar also agreed to be an Honorary Professor of Astrophysics at the institute and addressed its first students.
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and strongly believed that art and science can go hand in hand. He died on 7 June 2008 at his son's home in Gainesville, Florida.
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Ramakrishnan was married to Lalitha Ramakrishnan, the daughter of mathematics professor H. Subramani Iyer. His son
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with other prominent members. He had his early education in P. S. High School, Madras. He graduated from
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After completing his studies at Presidency College, Ramakrishnan started working with
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degree in physics. As a student of the college he had wanted to work under
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and C.Subramaniam, Alladi Ramakrishan set out to create the institute.
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Alladi, Krishnaswami; Klauder, John R.; Rao, Calyampudi R. (2010).
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The Legacy of Alladi Ramakrishnan in the Mathematical Sciences
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Ramakrishnan was a connoisseur of 692:20th-century Indian mathematicians 662:Presidency College, Chennai alumni 632:Interview with Alladi Ramakrishnan 403:Institute of Mathematical Sciences 357:, nobel laureate and professor at 351:Institute of Mathematical Sciences 206:Institute of Mathematical Sciences 145:Institute of Mathematical Sciences 14: 697:American people of Indian descent 529:"Alladi Ramakrishnan passes away" 448:Lehrbuch der theoretischen Physik 361:inaugurated the Institute at the 266:Lehrbuch der theoretischen Physik 537:. Chennai, India. Archived from 580:Staff Reporter (13 July 2008). 306:Cambridge Philosophical Society 667:20th-century Indian physicists 1: 313:Institute for Advanced Study 246:Sir Alladi Krishnaswami Iyer 244:. His father was the lawyer 226:special theory of relativity 16:Indian physicist (1923–2008) 682:University of Madras alumni 212:. He made contributions to 713: 672:Indian institute directors 355:Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar 254:Presidency College, Madras 177: 172: 115: 30: 302:University of Manchester 89:University of Manchester 687:Scientists from Chennai 505:. University of Florida 373:Personal life and death 326:Lorentz transformations 606:Alladi, Krishnaswami. 498:Alladi, Krishnaswami. 332:Creation of Matscience 383:University of Florida 359:University of Chicago 250:Constitution of India 65:7 June 2008 (aged 85) 387:Gainesville, Florida 141:University of Madras 81:University of Madras 69:Gainesville, Florida 466:. Rediff On The NeT 379:Krishnaswami Alladi 274:theoretical physics 202:Alladi Ramakrishnan 190:, and not by their 127:Theoretical physics 25:Alladi Ramakrishnan 565:has generic name ( 363:Presidency College 278:special relativity 214:stochastic process 167:A. P. 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Madras
Madras Presidency
India
Gainesville, Florida
University of Madras
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
University of Manchester
stochastic process
particle physics
special relativity
Theoretical physics
statistics
University of Madras
Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Doctoral advisor
M. S. Bartlett
A. P. Balachandran
Malayali name
given name
surname
Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Chennai
stochastic process
particle physics
matrices
special theory of relativity
quantum mechanics
Madras
Sir Alladi Krishnaswami Iyer

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