T. V. Ramakrishnan: Difference between revisions

He was awarded the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology|Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award]] in 1983, [[TWAS Prize]] in 1990<ref name="Prizes and Awards">{{Cite web |url=http://twas.org/opportunities/prizes-and-awards |title=Prizes and Awards |date=2016 |publisher=The World Academy of Sciences}}</ref> and the [[Padma Shri]] in 2001.<ref name='csir'>{{cite web | url = http://www.csir.res.in/external/heads/career/award/BPRIZE/Physical_SCIENCES.htm | title = Bhatnagar Award in Physical Sciences | access-date = 2011-08-21 | publisher = [[Council for Scientific and Industrial Research|CSIR]] | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110927141401/http://www.csir.res.in/external/heads/career/award/BPRIZE/Physical_SCIENCES.htm | archive-date = 27 September 2011 | df = dmy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.mha.nic.in/pdfs/LST-PDAWD.pdf | title = Padma Awards Directory | access-date = 2011-08-21 | date = 2011-07-05 | format = PDF | publisher = Ministry of Home Affairs, [[Government of India]] | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130510095705/http://www.mha.nic.in/pdfs/LST-PDAWD.pdf | archive-date = 10 May 2013 | df = dmy-all }}</ref> In 1987 he was elected a [[Fellow of the American Physical Society]] ''"for his contributions to the many-body theory of disordered systems, especially the scaling theory of localization and the theory of mixed-valent impurities"'' <ref> {{cite web|url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=&year=1987&unit_id=&institution=|title=APS Fellow Archives|publisher=APS|access-date= 24 September 2020}} </ref>

Ramakrishnan was elected a [[List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 2000|Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2000]].<ref name="FRS">{{cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/tiruppattur-ramakrishnan-12141|title=Tiruppattur Ramakrishnan|publisher=[[Royal Society]]|location=London}} One or more of the preceding sentences may incorporate text from the royalsociety.org website where "all text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under [[Creative Commons license|Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License]]." {{cite web |url=https://royalsociety.org/about-us/terms-conditions-policies/ |title=Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies |access-date=2016-03-09 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160220093712/https://royalsociety.org/about-us/terms-conditions-policies/ |archive-date=20 February 2016 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> His certificate of election reads: {{centered pull quote|Professor Ramakrishnan has made crucial contributions to our understanding of condensed [[many-body system|many body system]]s. His pioneering work started two major areas of activity. These are: the [[liquid]]-[[solid]] [[phase transition|transition]] as well as related phenomena in dense [[Classical mechanics|classical]] systems, and the onset of [[electron]] localization in disordered systems. He has also made many significant contributions to their growth. In a third area, namely [[mixed valence]] in [[rare-earth]] [[metal]]s, his work on the inverse [[Molecular orbital|orbital]] degeneracy expansion has had a major effect on the field&thinsp;<ref name="frsCitation">{{cite web |url=https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28RefNo%3D%27EC%2F2000%2F30%27%29 |title = EC/2000/30: Ramakrishnan, Tiruppattur Venkatachalamurti|publisher=[[The Royal Society]]|access-date=20 March 2016}}</ref>}}