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'''Mohit Randeria''' (born March 9, 1958) is a US-based Indian condensed matter physicist and a professor of physics at [[Ohio State University]]. Known for his research on condensed matter theory and superconductivity, Randeria is an elected fellow of the [[American Physics Society]]. The [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]], the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology]], one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to physical sciences in 2002.<ref name="View Bhatnagar Awardees">{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/AwardeeList.aspx |title=View Bhatnagar Awardees |date=2017-11-11 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |access-date=2017-11-11}}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|Long link - please select award year to see details}} He was awarded the 2002 ICTP Prize of the [[International Center for Theoretical Physics]], Trieste and the 2022 John Bardeen Prize.

Born on March 9, 1958 in the India capital of [[New Delhi]], Mohit Randeria graduated in electrical engineering from the [[Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi]] in 1980 and moved to the US for his master's studies to earn an MS degree in physics from [[California Institute of Technology]] in 1982.<ref name="IITD Distinguished Alumni Award">{{Cite web |url=http://www.iitd.ac.in/convocation/2007/DAA_mohit.pdf |title=IITD Distinguished Alumni Award |date=2017-10-20 |website=Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi |access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref> Subsequently, he enrolled at [[Cornell University]] in 1984 for his doctoral studies under the guidance of James P. Sethna and after securing a PhD in 1987, he did his post-doctoral work at the [[University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign]] during 1987–89, in the group of [[Anthony James Leggett]], who would go on to win the [[Nobel Prize for Physics]] in 2003.<ref name="Biographical Information">{{Cite web |url=http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~randeria/shortvita2010.pdf |title=Biographical Information |date=2017-10-20 |website=Ohio State University |access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref>

Randeria received the B. M. Birla Science Prize of the [[Birla Science Museum|B. M. Birla Science Centre]] in 1997.<ref name="B. M. Birla Science Prize">{{Cite web |title=B. M. Birla Science Prize |date=2017-10-20 |website=B. M. Birla Science Centre }}</ref> A year later, he was selected for the Swarnajayanti Fellowship of the [[Department of Science and Technology (India)|Department of Science and Technology]] for a five-year tenure that ran between 1998 and 2003. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]], one of the highest Indian science awards in 2002.<ref name="CSIR list of Awardees">{{Cite web |url=http://www.csir.res.in/careeraward/prize-winner-indexdiscipline-wise |title=CSIR list of Awardees |date=2017 |publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research}}</ref> The same year, he received the ICTP Prize of the [[International Center for Theoretical Physics]].<ref name="Mohit Randeria on APS">{{Cite web |url=https://physics.aps.org/authors/mohit_randeria |title=Mohit Randeria on APS |date=2017-10-20 |access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref> His alma mater, the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi chose him for the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2008 and the [[American Physics Society]] elected him as their fellow in 2008.<ref name="APS Fellow Archive">{{Cite web |url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=R&year=2017&unit_id=&institution= |title=APS Fellow Archive |date=2017-10-20 |website=American Physics Society |access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref> He was awarded the 2022 John Bardeen Prize “for pioneering theoretical work that has provided significant insights on the nature of superconductivity, its realization in strongly correlated systems, and experimental probes of unconventional superconductors,” specifically “for contributions to the theory of the BCS-BEC crossover, for providing theoretical understanding of angle-resolved photoemission experiments on superconducting and pseudo gap phases of the cuprate superconductors, and for providing rigorous bounds on the superconducting transition temperature in two-dimensional materials.”

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