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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = V. S. Ramamurthy<br />
|image = Ramamurthy (01118888).jpg<br />
| birth_date = 2 April 1942<br />
| birth_place = [[Madras Presidency]], [[British India]]<br />
| occupation = Nuclear physicist<br />
| yearsactive = Since 1963<br />
| awards = [[Padma Bhushan]]<br />
}}<br />
'''Valangiman Subramanian Ramamurthy''' (born 2 April 1942) is an Indian nuclear physicist with a broad range of contributions from basic research to Science and Engineering administration.Prof.Ramamurthy started his career in Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai in the year 1963. He made important research contributions in the area of nuclear fission, medium energy heavy ion reactions, statistical and thermodynamic properties of nuclei and low energy accelerator applications. During the period 1995-2006, Prof.Ramamurthy was fully involved in Science administration as Secretary to Government of India, Department of Science and Technology, (DST), New Delhi.Other important assignments held by him include Director, Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, (1989-1995), DAE Homi Bhabha Chair in the Inter-University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi (2006-2010), and Director of the [[National Institute of Advanced Studies]], Bengaluru (2009-2014).<ref name="Security of Kudankulam plant intact: Former nuclear programme head">{{cite web | url=http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/chandigarh/security-of-kudankulam-plant-intact-former-nuclear-programme-head/ | title=Security of Kudankulam plant intact: Former nuclear programme head | publisher=The Indian Express | date=1 December 2013 | access-date=11 July 2015}}</ref><ref name="Past Directors">{{cite web | url=http://www.nias.res.in/aboutnias-people-faculty-vsramamurthy.php | title=Past Directors | publisher=National Institute of Advanced Sciences | date=2015 | access-date=11 July 2015}}</ref> He is a former chairman of the Recruitment and Assessment Board of the [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]] and has served as a member of the design team of the [[Smiling Buddha|first Indian nuclear experiment]] in [[Pokhran Test Range|Pokhran]] on 18 May 1974.<ref name="V. S. Ramamurthy - Indian Fellow">{{cite web | url=http://insaindia.org.in/detail.php?id=N87-0974 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160813011017/http://insaindia.org.in/detail.php?id=N87-0974 | url-status=usurped | archive-date=13 August 2016 | title=V. S. Ramamurthy - Indian Fellow | publisher=Indian National Science Academy | date=2015 | access-date=11 July 2015}}</ref> The [[Government of India]] awarded him the third highest Indian civilian honour of [[Padma Bhushan]] in 2005.<ref name="Padma Shri">{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Shri | publisher=Padma Shri | date=2015 | access-date=18 June 2015 | archive-date=15 October 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | url-status=dead }}</ref><br />
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==Biography==<br />
Born on 2 April 1942<ref name="Indian Academy of Sciences Fellow">{{cite web | url=http://www.ias.ac.in/php/fell_all.php3?alpha=R | title=Indian Academy of Sciences Fellow | publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences Fellow | date=2015 | access-date=12 July 2015}}</ref> in the part of [[Madras Presidency]] that is now the south Indian state of [[Tamil Nadu]], Ramamurthy secured his graduate and master's degrees in Physics from the [[University of Madras]] and joined the training school of the Atomic Energy Establishment, Trombay, (present day [[Bhabha Atomic Research Centre]]) in 1963 for advanced training.<ref name="V. S. Ramamurthy - Indian Fellow" /> He continued at the institution to start his career where he stayed till 1989 during which period he secured a doctoral degree (PhD) in 1971 from the [[University of Mumbai]] for his thesis on ''stochastic theory of fragment mass and charge distributions in low energy fission''.<ref name="V. S. Ramamurthy - Indian Fellow" /><br />
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In 1989, he moved to the [[Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar]] as the director, a post he held till 1995.<ref name="Valangiraman S. Ramamurthy">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RX5Xdo030X0C&q=The+Institute+Of+Physics%2C+Bhubaneswar+Ramamurthy&pg=PA238 | title=Valangiraman S. Ramamurthy | publisher=New Age International | date=2015 | access-date=11 July 2015| isbn=9780852264966 }}</ref> The [[Government of India]] appointed him in 1995 as the Secretary at the [[Department of Science and Technology (India)|Department of Science and Technology]] (DST) where he worked till his superannuation in 2006. Thereafter, he held the [[Homi J. Bhabha|Homi Bhabha]] chair at the Inter-University Accelerator Center, New Delhi till 2009 when he took up the post of the director at the [[National Institute of Advanced Studies]], Bengaluru. On his retirement in 2014, he was made the Emeritus Professor of the institute.<ref name="Past Directors" /> He was also associated with the Recruitment and Assessment Board of the [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]] as the chairman<ref name="V. S. Ramamurthy - Indian Fellow" /> and chaired the standing advisory group on nuclear applications of the [[International Atomic Energy Agency]] (IAEA).<ref name="Research is a commitment, not a job">{{cite web | url=http://www.indiaeducationreview.com/interviews/research-commitment-not-job | title=Research is a commitment, not a job | publisher=India Educative Review | date=2 June 2011 | access-date=12 July 2015 | archive-date=13 July 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150713024542/http://www.indiaeducationreview.com/interviews/research-commitment-not-job | url-status=dead }}</ref><br />
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==Legacy and achievements==<br />
Ramamurthy was a member of the team which designed the [[Smiling Buddha]] project for carrying out the first Indian nuclear experiment at [[Pokhran]] on 18 May 1974.<ref name="V. S. Ramamurthy - Indian Fellow" /> During his stint as the director of the [[Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar|Institute of Physics]], he was the leader of the ''atomic and molecular clusters and low energy accelerator'' project and contributed to the setting up of the 3 MV accelerator centre at the institute.<ref name="V. S. Ramamurthy - Indian Fellow" /> He was also involved in the ''high energy nuclear physics programme'' using the heavy ion accelerators at the [[European Organization for Nuclear Research]] (CERN) in Geneva.<ref name="V. S. Ramamurthy - Indian Fellow" /> His researches covered the theoretical and experimental aspects of Nuclear fission physics and he is credited with advanced research on nuclear shell effects,<ref name="Statistical properties of excited nuclei and the determination of the ground-state shell correction energies">{{cite journal | title=Statistical properties of excited nuclei and the determination of the ground-state shell correction energies |author1=V.S. Ramamurthy |author2=S.S. Kapoor | journal= Physics Letters B|date=December 1972 | volume=42 | issue=4 | pages=399–403 | doi=10.1016/0370-2693(72)90091-3|bibcode=1972PhLB...42..399R }}</ref> nuclear level densities<ref name="Semiempirical nuclear level density formula with shell effects">{{cite journal | title=Semiempirical nuclear level density formula with shell effects |author1=S. K. Kataria |author2=V. S. Ramamurthy |author3=S. S. Kapoor |name-list-style=amp | journal=Phys. Rev. C |date=July 1978 | volume=19 |issue=1 | pages=549–563 | doi=10.1103/PhysRevC.18.549|bibcode=1978PhRvC..18..549K }}</ref> and pre-equilibrium fission and sub-barrier fusion dynamics.<ref name="V. S. Ramamurthy - Indian Fellow" /> His researches have been documented by way of several articles published in peer reviewed journals<ref name="International Atomic Energy Agency Author Profile">{{cite web | url=https://www-nds.iaea.org/nsr/fastsrch_act2.jsp?aname=V.S.Ramamurthy | title=International Atomic Energy Agency Author Profile | publisher=International Atomic Energy Agency | date=2015 | access-date=12 July 2015}}</ref> and a book, ''Nuclear Radiation Detectors'', released in 1986.<ref name="Nuclear Radiation Detectors">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RX5Xdo030X0C | title=Nuclear Radiation Detectors | publisher=New Age International |author1=S. S. Kapoor |author2=V. S. Ramamurthy | year=1986 | pages=236 | isbn=9780852264966}}</ref> He has also written on the sociological aspects of science and technology.<ref name="Pedal Power as the 21st Century Charkha">{{cite journal | url=http://www.dailypioneer.com/columnists/oped/pedal-power-as-the-21st-century-charkha.html | title=Pedal Power as the 21st Century Charkha |author1=Saurabh Kumar |author2=V. S. Ramamurthy | journal=The Pioneer |date=March 2015 }}</ref><br />
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'''Selected Bibliography'''<br />
* {{cite book | title=Nuclear Radiation Detectors | publisher=New Age International |author1=S. S. Kapoor |author2=V. S. Ramamurthy | year=1986 | pages=236 | isbn=9780852264966}}<br />
* {{cite journal | title=Semiempirical nuclear level density formula with shell effects |author1=S. K. Kataria |author2=V. S. Ramamurthy |author3=S. S. Kapoor |name-list-style=amp | journal=Phys. Rev. C |date=July 1978 | volume=19 |issue=1 | pages=549–563 | doi=10.1103/PhysRevC.18.549|bibcode=1978PhRvC..18..549K }}<br />
* {{cite journal | title=Statistical properties of excited nuclei and the determination of the ground-state shell correction energies |author1=V.S. Ramamurthy |author2=S.S. Kapoor | journal= Physics Letters B|date=December 1972 | volume=42 | issue=4 | pages=399–403 | doi=10.1016/0370-2693(72)90091-3|bibcode=1972PhLB...42..399R }}<br />
* {{cite journal | title=Pedal Power as the 21st Century Charkha |author1=Saurabh Kumar |author2=V. S. Ramamurthy | journal=The Pioneer |date=March 2015 }}<br />
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==Awards and honours==<br />
Ramamurthy is an elected fellow of the [[Indian National Science Academy]] (1987) and has served on its council for many years.<ref name="V. S. Ramamurthy - Indian Fellow" /> He is also an elected member of the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]], (1991)<ref name="Indian Academy of Sciences Fellow" /> the [[National Academy of Sciences, India]]<ref name="National Academy of Sciences Fellow">{{cite web | url=http://www.nasi.org.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=R | title=National Academy of Sciences Fellow | publisher=National Academy of Sciences | date=2015 | access-date=12 July 2015 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160315130140/http://nasi.org.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=R | archive-date=15 March 2016 }}</ref> and the [[Indian National Academy of Engineering]].<ref name="Indian National Academy of Engineering Fellow">{{cite web | url=http://inae.in/fellowship-engineering-sections-i-to-x/#SECTION-IX | title=Indian National Academy of Engineering Fellow | publisher=Indian National Academy of Engineering | date=2015 | access-date=12 July 2015}}</ref> He is a fellow of [[the World Academy of Sciences]] and a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.<ref name="V. S. Ramamurthy - Indian Fellow" /> The [[Government of India]] awarded him the third highest Indian civilian award of [[Padma Bhushan]] in 2005.<ref name="Padma Shri" /><br />
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==See also==<br />
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* [[Smiling Buddha]]<br />
* [[International Atomic Energy Agency]]<br />
* [[European Organization for Nuclear Research]]<br />
* [[Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar]]<br />
* [[National Institute of Advanced Studies]]<br />
* [[Department of Science and Technology (India)|Department of Science and Technology]]<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
* {{cite web | url=http://www.indiaeducationreview.com/interviews/research-commitment-not-job | title=Interview | publisher=India Educative Review | date=2 June 2011 | access-date=12 July 2015 | archive-date=13 July 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150713024542/http://www.indiaeducationreview.com/interviews/research-commitment-not-job | url-status=dead }}<br />
*{{cite web| url=https://www.khulke.com/roundtable/recorded/6455202aed961e1a9d4a0fd9| title=Interview: Pokhran – 1974: Inside Story| publisher=Khulke| access-date=2023-09-07| archive-date=7 September 2023| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230907081249/https://www.khulke.com/roundtable/recorded/6455202aed961e1a9d4a0fd9| url-status=dead}}<br />
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