Tiruppattur Venkatachalamurti Ramakrishnan

Born: 14 August 1941

He is an Indian theoretical physicist known for his contributions in condensed matter physics.
He is at present DAE Homi Bhabha Professor of Physics at Benaras Hindu University and also the chancellor of Tripura University.
He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in 1983, TWAS Prize in 1990 and the Padma Shri in 2001.
He started his professional career as a lecturer in the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
He shifted to the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1986 where he continued till 2003.
He has made seminal contributions to the scaling theory of electron localization.
He has made contributions to the theory of liquid to solid transition and of mixed-valence systems.
He has made crucial contributions to our understanding of condensed many-body systems.
His pioneering work started two major areas of activity.
These are the liquid-solid transition as well as related phenomena in dense classical systems, and the onset of electron localization in disordered systems.
He has also made many significant contributions to their growth.
In a third area, namely mixed valence in rare-earth metals, his work on the inverse orbital degeneracy expansion has had a major effect on the field.