E.C. George Sudarshan: 1931-2018

Ennackal Chandy George Sudarshan passed away today. He was a summit Indian theoretical physicist. Most recently, he was a colleague of Steven Weinberg, Jacques Distler, together with others at UT Austin.



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He was a Hindu physicist (interested inwards the science-religion interface) who has been nominated for the Nobel prize inwards physics ix times. Among topics he has contributed to, nosotros notice the impressive list:

Optical coherence, Sudarshan-Glauber representation, V-A theory (with Marshak), Tachyons, Quantum Zeno effect, Open quantum system, Spin-statistics theorem, non-invariance groups, positive maps of density matrices, quantum computation amid others

Czech readers could encounter that he was almost similar Jára da Cimrman who discovered the V-A theory simply was scooped or robbed past times others etc.




There accept been diverse controversies – for example, he has somewhat convincingly claimed that the 2005 physics Nobel prize which went to Glauber, Hall, together with Hänsch (I recollect the Harvard celebrations amongst Roy Glauber rather well) should accept gone primarily to him. Similar claims accept basically been made nigh his rights to larn the 1979 Nobel prize which went to Glashow, Salam, together with Weinberg.

I haven't studied his papers together with the history inwards exceptional together with then I won't defend whatever appraisal of these claims. But I approximate that he was a actually expert physicist who couldn't accept been far from deserving these prizes.

As a Hindu, he should larn reincarnated together with then things should travel either settled through his Karma or inwards his side past times side life. RIP – Reincarnate In Peace. Apologies to Kashyap (a Hindu TRF invitee blogger) if I confused Hinduism amongst something else...