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Ramamurti Shankar

American physicist · United States · On the map · Scientists · Born 1947 · age 79

Ramamurti Shankar is an American theoretical physicist who is the Josiah Willard Gibbs Professor of Physics and Professor of Applied Physics at Yale University.

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Lilienfeld Prize2009
Fellow of the American Physical Society

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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.

Country
United States
Category
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1947 · age 79