Ramamurti Shankar
Ramamurti Shankar | |
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Shankar in 2018 | |
| Born | April 28, 1947 New Delhi, British India |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater | IIT Madras (B.Tech.) University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D.) |
| Known for | Renormalization group approach to Fermi liquid theory Hamiltonian theory of the fractional quantum Hall effect Exact S-matrices in 2D field theories (with Witten) Principles of Quantum Mechanics Open Yale Courses |
| Awards | A.P. Sloan Fellowship (1982–86) Harwood F. Byrnes/Richard B. Sewall Teaching Prize (2005) Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize (2009) Distinguished Alumnus Award, IIT Madras (2013) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical condensed matter physics Quantum field theory |
| Institutions | Yale University |
| Thesis | Exploitation of the Small Pion Mass in Multi-Regge Theory (1974) |
| Website | campuspress |
Ramamurti Shankar (born April 28, 1947) is an American theoretical physicist who is the Josiah Willard Gibbs Professor of Physics and Professor of Applied Physics at Yale University. His research spans theoretical condensed matter physics and quantum field theory, with major contributions to the renormalization group theory of Fermi liquids, the fractional quantum Hall effect, and exact solutions in statistical mechanics.