Aiyalam Parameswaran Balachandran & Kavita Krishnamurthy

Aiyalam Parameswaran Balachandran

Born:25 January 1938

He is an Indian theoretical physicist well known for his extensive contributions to the role of classical topology in quantum physics.

He has been the Joel Dorman Steele Professor of Physics in Syracuse University since 2000.

He has also been a fellow of the American Physical Society and awarded a prize by the U.S. Chapter of the Indian Physics Association in recognition of his outstanding scientific contributions. In 1990, Syracuse University honored him with a Chancellor’s Citation for Exceptional Academic Achievement.

In recent, Balachandran’s research has been focused on the formulation of quantum field theories on noncommutative spacetimes and investigating the emergent significance of Hopf algebras in quantum physics as generalisations of symmetry groups.

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Kavita Krishnamurthy

Born: 25 January 1958

She is an Indian film playback singer.

Trained in classical music, she has recorded more than 18,000 songs in 16 languages in a career span of 30 years.

She is working with almost all the music composers including Laxmikant–Pyarelal, Naushad, S H Bihari, Kaifi Azmi, Anjan, O P Nayyar, Khayyam, Hemant Kumar, Ravinder Jain, Bappi Lahiri, Sameer, Anand Bakshi, Javid Akthar, Anu Malik, R. D. Burman, Hamsalekha, Zubeen Garg and A. R. Rahman.

She is also the recipient of four Filmfare Best Female Playback Singer Awards, including three consecutive awards in the period 1994–1996, and the Padmashri which she received in 2005.

In 1999, she married violinist L. Subramaniam and residing in Bengaluru.

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