Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar (6 August 1930 – 8 March 2004) was an Indian physicist who won the Royal Medal in 1994. He was the founder-president of the International Liquid Crystal Society.Chandrasekhar was born on 6 August 1930 at Kolkata. He received his M Scdegree in physics with first rank from Nagpur University in 1951. Subsequently,he joined the Raman Research Institute (RRI), Bangalore to work for hisdoctoral degree in physics under the guidance of his maternal uncle, C. V. Raman.The main topic of his research was related to optical rotatory dispersion measurementson several crystals. He received the D Sc degree from Nagpur University in 1954.Then he went to the Cavendish Laboratory on an 1851 Exhibition Scholarship and obtained a second doctorate degree from Cambridge University mainly for his work on the corrections for extinction in neutron and X-ray scattering from crystals.His subsequent postdoctoral work in the University College and the Royal Institutionat London also dealt with crystallographic problems. He returned to India in1961 as the first Head of the Department of Physics, which had just been started inthe University of Mysore at Mysore. It was here that he turned his attention toliquid crystals, a subject which at that time was just coming out of a long hibernation."@en }
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- Sivaramakrishna_Chandrasekhar abstract "Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar (6 August 1930 – 8 March 2004) was an Indian physicist who won the Royal Medal in 1994. He was the founder-president of the International Liquid Crystal Society.Chandrasekhar was born on 6 August 1930 at Kolkata. He received his M Scdegree in physics with first rank from Nagpur University in 1951. Subsequently,he joined the Raman Research Institute (RRI), Bangalore to work for hisdoctoral degree in physics under the guidance of his maternal uncle, C. V. Raman.The main topic of his research was related to optical rotatory dispersion measurementson several crystals. He received the D Sc degree from Nagpur University in 1954.Then he went to the Cavendish Laboratory on an 1851 Exhibition Scholarship and obtained a second doctorate degree from Cambridge University mainly for his work on the corrections for extinction in neutron and X-ray scattering from crystals.His subsequent postdoctoral work in the University College and the Royal Institutionat London also dealt with crystallographic problems. He returned to India in1961 as the first Head of the Department of Physics, which had just been started inthe University of Mysore at Mysore. It was here that he turned his attention toliquid crystals, a subject which at that time was just coming out of a long hibernation.".