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Harish-Chandra, born in Kanpur, began as a physicist under Homi Bhabha and Paul Dirac and became one of the leading mathematicians of the 20th century. The Harish-Chandra Research Institute at Prayagraj is named after him.
Key contributions
- Fundamental work on representations of semisimple Lie groups
- Harish-Chandra isomorphism and character theory
- Fellow of the Royal Society (1973)