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Sir Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan, FRS [1] (4 December 1898 – 14 June 1961) was an Indian physicist. He was a co-discoverer of Raman scattering, [2] for which his mentor C. V. Raman was awarded the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics .
Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan (KSK) is mostly known as co-discoverer of the famous Raman effect, a discovery which brought the first and till date the only Nobel Prize in Science to India. The Prize was awarded to Krishnan’s mentor and research guide C.V. Raman in 1930.
Aug 22, 2019 · I ndependent India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru could not have been more accurate in describing eminent physicist Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan, also known as KS Krishnan. Want inspire young minds and broaden their career options.
K.S. Krishnan (1898-1961) Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan, known affectionately as KSK, is celebrated not only as the co-discoverer of the renowned Raman Effect but also as a passionate advocate for science communication in native languages.
Professor K S Krishnan was a pioneer in what is now called quantum condensed matter physics. His fundamental contributions to Raman effect, anisotropic magnetic properties of molecules and solids, discoveries of quasi 2 dimensional electron transport and Landau diamagnetism in graphite, theory and experiments on the electron transport in alloys ...
Jan 22, 2000 · K.S. Krishnan, F.R.S. (1898–1961) is one of the most distinguished Indian scientists of this century. His collaboration with Sir C.V. Raman on the scattering of light by liquids--a collaboration which Raman described as ‘a partnership in scientific research of the Bowen-Millikan type’—led to the discovery of the effect that bears Raman ...
Nov 28, 2014 · Professor K.S. Krishnan was the first Principal Investigator (PI) invited by Obaid Siddiqi to work in Neurogenetics in the Molecular Biology Unit (MBU) of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, now universally recognized for its distinguished and pioneering contributions to Drosophila Neurogenetics (Citation Krishnan et al., 2012 ...
This is an eminently readable account of not only the life and scientific contributions of Sir K. S. Krishnan FRS but also in many ways, the history of the genesis of modern physics in India from the 1920s to the early 1960s.
Nov 9, 2020 · In the end, Raman’s colleague Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan (or K.S. Krishnan) found that scattered light was polarised – which was, again, published in Nature. Following this, Raman began...
Jun 27, 2018 · The great scientist and scientific administrator, Sir K.S. Krishnan, died on 14 June 1961 due to a massive heart attack in Delhi. Milestones in the Life of Sir K.S. Krishnan. 1898: Born on December 4, 1898, in the village of Vizhupanoor in present-day Tamil Nadu.
