- Ramanuja Vijayaraghavan
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name = Ramanuja Vijayaraghavan
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birth_date =1931
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residence =India
nationality =India n
field =Physics
work_institution =Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
alma_mater =Annamalai University Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
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prizes =Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award 1976UGC Raman Award in Physical Sciences 1983
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footnotes =Ramanuja Vijayaraghavan (born
January 3 ,1931 ) is anIndia nphysicist , specializing incondensed matter physics .Vijayaraghavan pioneered active research in the areas of metal physics, magnetic resonance in biophysical systems, and fine particle physics, a forerunner to
nanoscience . He is a fellow of several science academies and twice elected as a member of theInternational Union of Pure and Applied Physics commission on magnetism.After graduating from the
Annamalai University in 1951, he joined theTata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) at Bombay as a Research Student, eventually rising to the position of Distinguished Professor and Dean (Physics Faculty). He formally retired in 1996 . He was awarded anIndian National Science Academy Senior Scientist position from 1996 to 2001, during which he worked at SAMEER,Mumbai , in collaboration with TIFR.As a tribute to his contribution to physics, two commemorative volumes were published in 1991 on the occasion of his 60th birthday: "Frontiers in solid state series, Superconductivity (Vol.1)", and "Magnetism (Vol. 2)", by
World Scientific Publishing , in Singapore. These volumes incorporate articles written by leading international scientists, includingNobel laureates .Vijayaraghavan was conferred the prestigious
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in 1976, and received the UGC Raman award in Physical Sciences in 1983. Apart from science, he is well versed inHindu philosophy and Tamil literature.Professor Vijayaraghavan is from a family of
Iyengar s. One of his forefathers was the deputy chief minister ofRamnad Samasthanam , and his grandfather was Mahawidwan R. Raghava Iyengar, a renowned Tamil andSanskrit scholar of the twentieth century.
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