Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan

Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan

Infobox_Scientist
name = Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan


birth_date = birth date|1898|12|4
birth_place = Watrap, India
death_date = Death date and age|1961|06|14|1898|12|4
death_place =
nationality = Indian
field = Physics
alma_mater = The American College in Madurai
Madras Christian College
Calcutta University
work_institution = Madras Christian College
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
Dacca University
Allahabad University
National Physical Laboratory
doctoral_advisor =
doctoral_students=
known_for = Raman effect
Crystal Magnetism
Magneto Chemistry
Technique for measuring Magnetic anisotropy of magnetic crystals
prizes = Padma Bhushan
FRS
Knighthood
Bhatnagar Memorial Award
religion = Hindu
footnotes =

Padma Bhushan Sir Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan, MSc in Physics, FRS, (4 December 1898 – 14 June 1961) was an Indian physicist. He was a co-discover of Raman scattering, for which his mentor C. V. Raman was awarded the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Biography

Early years

Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan, generally referred to as K. S. Krishnan or KSK, was born on December 4, 1898 in Watrap, Tamil Nadu. His father was a farmer-scholar deeply versed in Tamil and Sanskrit literature. He had his early schooling in G.S. Hindu Higher Secondary school, Srivilliputhur near to his native.

Middle years

He was elected as Fellow of Royal Society in 1940. He was knighted in 1946 and awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India in 1954. He was the first recipient of the Bhatnagar Memorial Award in 1961.

Quotes about Krishnan

* "What is remarkable about Krishnan is not that he is a great scientist but something much more. He is a perfect citizen, a whole man with an integrated personality." - Jawaharlal Nehru

ee also

* Raman scattering
* Magnetic anisotropy

References

*cite journal |last=Lonsdale |first=Kathleen |authorlink=Kathleen Lonsdale |coauthors=H. J. Bhabha |year=1967 |month=November |title=Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan. 1898-1961 | publisher=Royal Society | location=London |journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society |volume=13 |issue= |pages=245-255 |url=http://www.jstor.org/view/00804606/ap030015/03a00120/0

External links

* [http://www.vigyanprasar.gov.in/scientists/KS_Krishnan/KariamanikkamSKrishnan.htm Scientists Biography page on K S Krishnan, in Vigyan Prasar, Government of India]


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