SOME IMPORTANT LETTERS RELATED TO THE RESEARCH
AND PROFESSIONAL CAREER OF ALLADI RAMAKRISHNAN
Alladi Ramakrishnan had a remarkable research and professional career,
remarkable in the sense that at each stage, some eminent scientist or
high level administrator recognized the significance of Ramakrishnan's
research and efforts, and immediately provided the appropriate support
that was necessary. In what follows, we have assembled a few important
letters and documents related to Professor Ramakrishnan's career and
provided background regarding the letters, the person writing these
letters, and what the outcome was. These letters and documents pertain to:
I) Ramakrishnan going to the University of Manchester for his
PhD (1949-51) under Professor M. S. Bartlett.
Recognition of Ramakrishnan's
work on product densities by Professors Bartlett and D. G. Kendall
(1950-51), including publication of his work in the Proceedings of the
Cambridge Philosophical Society.
II) Recognition of Ramakrishnan's work by the great
astrophysicist Subrahmanyam Chandrasekar leading to the publication of his work
in the Astrophysical Journal starting from 1951.
III) Recognition of Ramakrishnan's work by Nobel Laureate
Sir. C. V. Raman leading to the election of Ramakrishnan as a Fellow of the
Indian Academy of Sciences in 1955.
IV) Recognition of Ramakrishnan's work by Nobel Laureate
Werner Heisenberg in 1956 leading to the publication of Ramakrishnan's
article in the Handbuch der Physik in 1959.
V) Ramakrishnan's letters to Education Minister C. Subramaniam
in 1959 inviting him to meet the students of the Theoretical Physics
Seminar.
VI) Ramakrishnan's letter to Nobel Laureate Niels Bohr in
1960 thanking Bohr for his visit to Ekamra Nivas and Bohr's reply in which he
expresses his appreciation of Ramakrishnan's efforts and invites him to
visit the Copenhagen Institute of Physics.
VII) Telegram from Education Minister C. Subramaniam saying
that Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was willing to meet Ramakrishnan's
group on October 8, 1961.
VIII) Telegram from Nobel Laureate Niels Bohr congratulating
Ramakrishnan on the creation of MATSCIENCE.
IX) Letter from Nobel Laureate Dirac in 1971 acknowledging
that Ramakrishnan's generalization of the Dirac matrices is quite
interesting.
Each part above has a page describing the context and background and
links are provided to these letters and
documents.
Krishnaswami Alladi
The url of this page is http://www.krishnaswami-alladi.com/old-website/ar-important-letters/index.html.
Created by
K. Alladi
(alladik@ufl.edu) on
Thursday, January 28, 2010.
Last update made Thu Jan 28 23:35:43 EST 2010.
alladik@ufl.edu
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