1. Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar FNA, FRS was an Indian physicist who won the Royal Medal in 1994.
14 Facts About Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar
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Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar was the founder-president of the International Liquid Crystal Society.
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Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar received his MSc degree in physics with first rank from Nagpur University in 1951.
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Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar received the D Sc degree from Nagpur University in 1954.
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Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar 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.
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Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar was invited to establish a liquid crystal laboratory in RRI after the Department of Science and Technology started supporting it in 1971.
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Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar organized several international conferences, including the one in 1973 on the occasion of the Silver Jubilee of the founding of the RRI.
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Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar was awarded A Cemal Eringen Medal in 1996.
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Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar was elected Fellow of all the three scientific academies in India, including the Indian Academy of Sciences and the Indian National Science Academy.
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Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1983, and was a fellow of the Institute of Physics and of the Third World Academy of Sciences.
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Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar was a member of several international and national committees on science and education.
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Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar was the recipient of the Karnataka Rajyotsava award, Padma Bhushan and the honour of Knight of the Order of Academic Palms by the French Government.
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Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar was largely responsible for placing India on the international map in the field of liquid crystals.
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Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar hailed from the most illustrious family of physicists in India.