Biography:Ramamurti Shankar
Ramamurti Shankar | |
|---|---|
| Born | April 28, 1947 British India |
| Citizenship | United States of America |
| Awards | Lilienfeld Prize (2009) Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize (2009) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical Physics |
| Institutions | Indian Institute of Technology Madras University of California, Berkeley Yale University |
| Thesis | Exploitation of the Small Pion Mass in Multi-Regge Theory (1974) |
| Website | pantheon |
Ramamurti Shankar (born April 28, 1947) is the John Randolph Huffman Professor of Physics at Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut.[1]
Education
He received his B. Tech in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras and his Ph.D. in theoretical particle physics from the University of California, Berkeley (1974).
Career
His research is in theoretical condensed matter physics, although he is also known for his earlier work in theoretical particle physics. In 2009, Shankar was awarded the Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize from the American Physical Society for "innovative applications of field theoretic techniques to quantum condensed matter systems".[2] After three years at the Harvard Society of Fellows, he joined the Yale physics department, which he chaired between 2001-2007.[3] He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the second Indian after S. Chandrasekhar to be a member of Harvard Society of Fellows. His Youtube lectures have been viewed by over 20 million people .
Selected publications
- Principles of Quantum Mechanics, Plenum, 1994.
- Basic Training in Mathematics, Plenum, 1995.[4]
- Fundamentals of Physics, Yale Press, 2014.[5]
- Fundamentals of Physics II, Yale Press, 2016.[6]
- Quantum Field Theory and Condensed Matter: An Introduction, Cambridge University Press, 2017.[7]
References
- ↑ "Ramamurti Shankar | Department of Physics" (in en). http://physics.yale.edu/people/ramamurti-shankar.
- ↑ "Prize Recipient" (in en). https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?first_nm=Ramamurti&last_nm=Shankar&year=2009.
- ↑ Pulakkat, Hari (2015-03-21). "Yale physicist R Shankar teaches physics combined with a liberal dose of humour". The Economic Times. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/science/yale-physicist-r-shankar-teaches-physics-combined-with-a-liberal-dose-of-humour/articleshow/46641193.cms.
- ↑ "Books – R. Shankar Personal Page" (in en-US). https://campuspress.yale.edu/rshankar/books/.
- ↑ "Fundamentals of Physics by R. Shankar" (in en). http://yalebooks.co.uk/display.asp?k=9780300192209.
- ↑ "Fundamentals of Physics II | Yale University Press". https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/97804582365/fundamentals-physics-ii.
- ↑ "Quantum Field Theory and Condensed Matter by Ramamurti Shankar" (in en). https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/quantum-field-theory-and-condensed-matter/2CA9970800C3D31D6E641736186B3FBD.
External links
- Ramamurti Shankar webpage at Yale University
- Fundamentals of Physics Lectures on YouTube.
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