Harish-Chandra
Indian American mathematician and physicist (1923-1983) · India · Academics · Died at 60
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Something wrong?Harish-Chandra FRS was an Indian-American mathematician and physicist who did fundamental work in representation theory, especially harmonic analysis on semisimple Lie groups.
A life in dates
1983Died16 October 19831977Padma BhushanAward1974Srinivasa Ramanujan MedalAward1973Fellow of the Royal SocietyAward1957Guggenheim FellowshipAward1954Cole Prize in AlgebraAward1923Born11 October 1923
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Sibling: Satish ChandraAbout this person
Country
India
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1923 to 1983 · aged 60
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Gorō ShimuraBoth received Cole Prize in AlgebraG. N. RamachandranBoth received Srinivasa Ramanujan MedalGeorge LusztigBoth received Cole Prize in Algebra
K. S. ChandrasekharanBoth received Srinivasa Ramanujan Medal
Prasanta Chandra MahalanobisBoth received Srinivasa Ramanujan Medal
Oscar ZariskiBoth received Cole Prize in Algebra
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