Ramamurti Rajaraman

Ramamurti Rajaraman (11 March 1939 – 12 July 2025) was an Indian theoretical physicist who was an emeritus professor of theoretical physics at the School of Physical Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University. He was also the co-Chairman of the International Panel on Fissile Materials and a member of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' Science and Security Board. He taught and conducted research in physics at the Indian Institute of Science, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and as a visiting professor at Stanford, Harvard, MIT, and elsewhere. He received his doctorate in theoretical physics in 1963 from Cornell University. In addition to his physics publications, Rajaraman wrote widely on topics including fissile material production in India and Pakistan and the radiological effects of nuclear weapon accidents.