Personal Information
Date of birth: September 16, 1931
Place of birth: Kottayam, Kerala State, India
Parents: Ennackal Ipe Chandy and Kaithail Varghese Achamma
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| Education |
| 1946-1948 | C.M.S. College, Kottayam, Kerala State, India. |
| 1948-1951 | B.Sc. (Hons) Madras Christian College, Tambaram, Tamil Nadu, India. |
| 1951-1952 | M.A. University of Madras, Madras, Tamil Nadu, India. |
| 1952-1955 | Research Assistant; Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay, India. |
| 1955-1958 | Ph.D. University of Rochester, Rochester, New York. |
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| Experience |
| 1951-1952 | Demonstrator and resident tutor - physics; Madras Christian College |
| 1952-1955 | Research Assistant; Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay |
| 1955-1957 | Teaching Assistant; University of Rochester |
| 1957-1959 | Corporation Fellow; Harvard University |
| 1959-1961 | Assistant Professor; University of Rochester |
| 1961-1963 | Associate Professor; University of Rochester |
| 1963-1964 | Visiting Professor; Institute of Exact Sciences, Bern, Switzerland |
| 1964-1969 | Professor & Director Program in Elementary Particles; Syracuse University |
1969-
present | Professor; University of Texas, Austin |
| 1970-1991 | Director; Center for Particle Theory, University of Texas, Austin |
| 1971-1991 | Senior Professor; Center for Theoretical Studies; Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore India |
| 1984 -1991 | Director, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India. |
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| Honors and Awards |
| 1969 | D.Sc. - University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee (Honoris Causa) |
| 1970 | Sir C.V. Raman Distinguished Professor of Physics - Madras University |
| 1973 | D.Sc. (Honoris Causa) - University of Delhi, India |
| 1974 | Padma Bhushan (Order of the Lotus) - decoration presented by President of India |
| 1976 | Honors Award - Association of Indians in America, New York |
| 1977 | Bose Medal - Indian National Science Academy |
| 1980 | Science and Technology Award - Kerala State Government |
| 1984 | D.Sc. (Engg) - Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden |
| 1986 | The First Prize in Physics - Third World Academy of Science, Italy |
| 1987 | D,Sc. (Honoris Causa) - University of Madras, India |
| 1988 | Distinguished Scientist - Andhra Pradesh Akademi of Sciences, Hyderabad India |
| 1989 | D.Sc. (Honoris Causa), Burdwan Univeristy, Burdwan, India |
| 1993 | D.Sc. (Honoris Causa), Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi, India |
| 1997 | D.Sc. (Honoris Causa), Kerala University, Trivandrum, India |
| 1998 | Desikottama (Distinguished Scholar), Visva Bharati Univ., Santi Niketan, India |
| 2000-2002 | Chairman, World Malayalee Council |
| 2004 | Vedanta Sastra Ratnakar, International Vedanta Society, Oxford, Ohio, USA |
| 2006 | Presidential Citation, The University of Texas at Austin, (to be awarded in Oct. 2006) |
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| Memberships in Professional Organizations |
| 1962-present | Fellow of the American Physical Society |
| 1963-present | Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences |
| 1971-present | Fellow of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kiev |
| 1972-present | Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy |
| 1985-present | Third World Academy of Sciences |
| 1985-present | Honorary Fellow of Calcutta Mathematical Society |
| 1987-present | Titular Member of L'Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences |
| 1995-present | Honorary Fellow, Central Institute for English and Other Foreign Languages, Hyderabad |
| 1999-present | Fellow, European Academy for Arts, Science and Literature |
| 2001-present | Honorary Fellow, Indian Institute for Advanced Study, Shimla, India |
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| Service to Science |
| Member Editorial Boards: |
1966-1968
1975-1978 | Journal of Mathematical Physics |
| 1983-present | Journal of Mathematics and Physics (Indian Institute of Technology, Madras India) |
| 1967-present | Reports on Mathematical Physics |
| 1970-present | Journal of Social and Biological Structures |
| 1971-present | Letters in Mathematical Physics |
| 1975-present | Referee for: Physical Review, Physical Review Letters, Journal of Mathematical Physics, Journal of Optical Society of America |
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International Involvement
- Senior Professor—Center for Theoretical Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore India
- Director—Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Madras India
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Listed In
- American Men of Science
- Leaders in American Education
- World Who's Who
- International Who's Who in Community Service
- Directory of International Biography
- Personalities of the South
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| Students
Ph.D Students (with present positions):
- R. Acharya ( Professor Arizona State Univ )
- K. Bardakci ( Professor U C Berkeley )
- T. Jordan ( Professor Univ of Minnesota )
- D. G. Currie ( Professor Univ of Maryland )
- M Y Han ( Professor Duke Univ.)
- M E Arons ( Professor Long Island Univ.)
- G. Pinski ( Psychiatrist)
- J Schechter ( Professor Syracuse Univ )
- N Mukunda ( Professor IISc , Bangalore )
- J G Kuriyan ( UCLA/ now in private enterprise)
- C C Chiang ( Prof, Academia Sinica, Taipei )
- Hans Bebie ( Director, Institute of Exact Sciences )
- Hans Hofer ( Experimental High Energy, Bern )
- P M Valanju ( Reseach Scientist, Institute for Fusion Studies, Univ of Texas)
- E. Mac ( not known )
- J Underwood ( A C C , Austin )
- M A Khalil ( Environment Research Institute , Portland )
- M Byrd ( Southern Illinois Univ, Carbondale )
- M Mims ( Private Enterprise )
- T Tilma ( Japan )
- E Chisolm ( LANL, Los Alamos )
- A Burcu ( Financial Services )
- S Gousheh ( Teheran, Iran )
- Al Hendi ( Riyadh, Saudi Arabia )
- S Varma ( Financial services )
- A Shaji ( Univ of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM)
- Hans Schatz ( Institute of Exact Sciences, Bern)
- Urjit Yagnik ( IUCAA, Pune, India)
Current Ph.D. students at University of Texas at Austin:
- C Rodriguez
- K Modi
- Aik-Meng Kuah
- Antonia Chimonidou
- K Dixit
- P Jantzke
Past research associates and their current status:
- H J Schnitzer (Professor Brandeis Univ.)
- P Cziffra (LRL, Livermore, Ca.)
- A J Macfarlane (Professor Cambridge Univ, U.K.)
- C Ryan (Deceased)
- I Gyuk (Professor Univ of Wisconsin/Milwaukee)
- N Papstamatiou (Professor Univ of Wisconsin/Milwaukee)
- K Raman (Professor Weslyan Univ, Middletown, CT)
- C C Chiang (Professor Academia Sinica, Taipei )
- J Mehra (Professor ICTP, Trieste, Italy)
- F Zaccaria (Professor University of Naples, Naples, Italy)
- A Simoni (Professor University of Naples, Naples, Italy)
- G Maiella (Professor University of Naples, Naples, Italy)
- L P Hsu (unknown)
- S K Yun (unknown)
- A Gleeson (Professor Univ of Texas at Austin, Austin, Tx)
- A Bohm (Professor Univ of Texas at Austin, Austin, Tx)
- H Rechenberg (Professor Max Planck Institute, Munich, Germany)
- M Gundzik (Private Enterprise )
- N Mukunda (Professor IISc, Bangalore, India)
- X Tata (Professor Univ of Hawaii, Hawaii )
- T N Sherry (Unknown)
- Tom Imbo (Professor Univ of Chicago , Chicago , Il)
- S P Nandi (Professor Oklahoma State Univ.)
- P Valanju (Research Scientist, University of Texas at Austin)
- C Gardiner (Professor, New Zealand)
- W A Hurley ( not known )
- K H Wang ( not known )
- R M Moore ( not known )
- C A Nelson (Professor, SUNY, Binghamton)
- M Y Han (Professor, Duke Univ)
- B Misra (Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece)
- S Pakvasa (Professor, Univ of Hawaii)
- Fr. Jacques Voisin (Louvain Univ, Belgium)
- E. Takasugi (Professor, Osaka Univ, Japan)
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Curriculum Vitae
Awards