Harish Chandra
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| Born |
11 October 1923 Kanpur, India |
| Died | 16 October 1983 (aged 60) Princeton, New Jersey, United States |
| Residence | Princeton, New Jersey |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater |
University of Allahabad University of Cambridge |
| Known for |
Harish-Chandra's c-function Harish-Chandra's character formula Harish-Chandra homomorphism Harish-Chandra isomorphism Harish-Chandra module Harish-Chandra's regularity theorem Harish-Chandra's Schwartz space Harish-Chandra transform Harish-Chandra's Ξ function |
| Awards |
Fellow of the Royal Society Cole Prize in Algebra (1954) Srinivasa Ramanujan Medal |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics, Physics |
| Institutions |
Indian Institute of Science Harvard University Columbia University Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Institute for Advanced Study |
| Doctoral advisor | Paul Dirac |
Harish-Chandra FRS (11 October 1923 – 16 October 1983) was an Indian American mathematician and physicist who did fundamental work in representation theory, especially harmonic analysis on semisimple Lie groups.
Harish-Chandra was born in Kanpur. He was educated at B.N.S.D. College, Kanpur and at the University of Allahabad. After receiving his master's degree in Physics in 1943, he moved to the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore for further studies in theoretical physics and worked with Homi J. Bhabha.
In 1945, he moved to University of Cambridge, and worked as a research student under Paul Dirac. While at Cambridge, he attended lectures by Wolfgang Pauli, and during one of them pointed out a mistake in Pauli's work. The two were to become lifelong friends. During this time he became increasingly interested in mathematics. At Cambridge he obtained his PhD in 1947.
He was a member of the(NAS) National Academy of Sciences of the U.S. and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was the recipient of the Cole Prize of the American Mathematical Society, in 1954. The Indian National Science Academy honoured him with the Srinivasa Ramanujan Medal in 1974. In 1981, he received an honorary degree from Yale University.
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