Rangaswamy Srinivasan

Rangaswamy Srinivasan ( born February 28, 1929 in India ) is a physicist and scientist at IBM Research.

In 1953, he came as a graduate student in the USA, earned his Ph.D. at the University of S. California, then worked in 1956 at the California Institute of Technology, and 1957-61 at the University of Rochester. 1961-1990, he led a group at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY.

In the early 1980s, UV lasers have been commercially available, he discovered in 1981 with two others that an ultraviolet excimer laser can be used without thermal damage to the surrounding tissue precisely etch tissue. He worked with Samuel E. Blum and James J. Wynne of IBM. He called the process ablative photodecomposition ( Ablative Photodecomposition, APD). From 1983 he worked together with the Ophthalmologist Stephen Trokel from the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center because the ADP use for surgery of the cornea, leading to LASIK. In 1998 he received the Max Delbruck Prize and the 2004 RW Wood Prize ( with Wynne, Blum). Him and his group was the National Medal of Technology, awarded in 2011. In 2013 he received the Russ Prize.

Since 1990 he leads the consulting firm UVTech Associates.

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