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Prof. T. V. Ramakrishnan is a theoretical physicist known for the scaling theory of electron localisation (the 'gang of four' paper, 1979) and a theory of how liquids freeze. He studied at Banaras Hindu University and taught at IIT Kanpur and IISc.
Key contributions
- Co-author of the scaling theory of Anderson localisation (1979)
- Ramakrishnan–Yussouff theory of freezing
- Fellow of the Royal Society (2000); Padma Bhushan (2001)