26 Facts About Ramamurti Rajaraman

Ramamurti Rajaraman was born on 11 March 1939 and is an emeritus professor of theoretical physics at the School of Physical Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Ramamurti Rajaraman was the co-Chairman of the International Panel on Fissile Materials and a member of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' Science and Security Board.

Ramamurti Rajaraman has taught and conducted research in physics at the Indian Institute of Science, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and as a visiting professor at Stanford, Harvard, MIT, and elsewhere.

Ramamurti Rajaraman received his doctorate in theoretical physics in 1963 from Cornell University.

Ramamurti Rajaraman completed his BSc from Delhi University in 1958 and his PhD in theoretical physics in 1963 from Cornell University with Hans Bethe as his supervisor.

Ramamurti Rajaraman spent sabbaticals at the Harvard University, MIT, Stanford University, CERN, University of Illinois and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Ramamurti Rajaraman suggested instead summing, in closed form, interactions to all orders among any given number of nucleons, thereby generating a density expansion.

McKellar, Ramamurti Rajaraman studied the impact on of intrinsic three-body and higher many-body forces between nucleons, on nuclear matter.

Separately Ramamurti Rajaraman showed that nucleon-nucleon correlations suppress pion condensation in neutron stars.

Ramamurti Rajaraman gave the first determination from experimental data of the value of the "Triple Pomeron Vertex" as a function of momentum transfer and derived the consequences of the vanishing of this vertex on high energy hadron scattering.

In 1985, R Jackiw and Rajaraman showed that gauge theories with anomalies are not necessarily inconsistent, contrary to the general belief till then.

Separately Ramamurti Rajaraman studied, with Dashen and Ma, the finite temperature behaviour of the Gross and Neveu model which spontaneously breaks chiral symmetry.

Dashen, Ma and Ramamurti Rajaraman found that when temperature is turned on, however slightly, the symmetry is restored.

Separately, Ma and Ramamurti Rajaraman gave a pedagogical explanation of when and why broken symmetries are restored by fluctuations.

Ramamurti Rajaraman studied different features of Bilayer quantum hall systems.

MacDonald and T Jungwirth and Rajaraman constructed their phase diagram at filling factor of two as a function of the Zeeman coupling, the layer bias and interlayer tunneling.

Ramamurti Rajaraman has argued against India developing nuclear weapons long before its first nuclear test at Pokhran in 1974.

Since then, through articles, television appearances and lectures at think tanks and universities in India and abroad, Ramamurti Rajaraman has tried to bring clarity to nuclear issues in South Asia and at the global level.

Ramamurti Rajaraman's work covers nuclear weapon accidents, civil defense, India's nuclear doctrine, minimal deterrence and anti-ballistic-missile and early warning systems.

Ramamurti Rajaraman has repeatedly urged capping of India's nuclear arsenal based on technical and strategic grounds that a small arsenal will suffice to meet the requirements of the Indian government's stated doctrine of minimum deterrence.

Ramamurti Rajaraman has championed nuclear de-alert agreements and other confidence building measures at track II meetings with Pakistani and Chinese colleagues.

Ramamurti Rajaraman has calculated fissile material production and stocks in South Asia and analysed the prospects for FMCT.

Ramamurti Rajaraman has analysed in detail the ramifications of the US-India Nuclear Agreement Nuclear Deal and was an active participant in the contentious public debate surrounding its three-year negotiations.

Ramamurti Rajaraman has written on safety, security and transparency in India's nuclear energy program, from well before the Fukushima tragedy.

Ramamurti Rajaraman was a member of the Expert Committee of the Nuclear Threat Initiative for developing their 2012 Nuclear Security Index.

In 1975 Ramamurti Rajaraman published the very first review article on these new methods in the review journal Physics Reports.