Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar

Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar ( born August 6, 1930 in Calcutta, † March 8, 2004 ) was an Indian physicist. He is known for research on liquid crystals.

Chandrasekhar studied physics at the University of Nagpur with the diploma in 1951. Afterwards he was at the Raman Research Institute in Bangalore at CV Raman, who was his mother's brother. In 1954 he received his doctorate at the University of Nagpur due to its performed on the Raman Research Institute crystal optical research. He went with a scholarship to the University of Cambridge ( Cavendish Laboratory), where he received his doctorate in again. As a post - graduate student he was at University College London and the Royal Institution in London, where he dealt with crystallography. In 1961 he returned to India as a professor and head of the newly established Faculty of Physics at the University of Mysore. There his employment began with liquid crystals. In 1971 he returned to the Raman Research Institute back as head of liquid crystals.

He discovered the columnar phase of liquid crystals (formerly called discotic ).

He was founding president of the International Liquid Crystal Society. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1994 he received the Royal Medal and he received the Gold Medal of the UNESCO Niels Bohr (1998) and Padma Bhushan in 1998. In 1999 he became a Knight of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques.

For twenty years he was editor of the journal Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals.

Since he sometimes S. Chandrasekhar is abbreviated and cited, it should not be confused with the astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar ( who is related to him).

Writings

• Liquid Crystals. Cambridge University Press, 1977 /1993.