Harish-Chandra
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Harish-Chandra (né Harishchandra) 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.
Key facts
- Scientist.known_for
- Harish-Chandra's c-function Harish-Chandra's character formula Harish-Chandra homomorphismHarish-Chandra isomorphism Harish-Chandra integral Harish-Chandra module Harish-Chandra's regularity theorem Harish-Chandra's Schwartz space Harish-Chandra transform Harish-Chandra's Ξ function Philosophy of cusp forms
- Scientist.field
- Mathematics, Physics
- Scientist.work_institutions
- Indian Institute of Science Harvard University Columbia University Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Institute for Advanced Study
- Scientist.prizes
- Fellow of the Royal SocietyCole Prize in Algebra (1954)Srinivasa Ramanujan Medal
- Scientist.name
- Harish-Chandra
- Scientist.image
- Harish-Chandra 4.jpg
- Scientist.birth_place
- Kanpur, India
- Scientist.death_place
- Princeton, New Jersey, United States
- Scientist.citizenship
- United States
- Scientist.alma_mater
- University of AllahabadUniversity of Cambridge
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Dominion of India
- Place of birth
- Kanpur
- Place of death
- Princeton
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
- Employer
- Institute for Advanced Study
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Padma Bhushan
- Doctoral advisor
- Paul Dirac
- Field of work
- Lie group
- Image
- Harish-Chandra 4.jpg
- Residence
- Princeton
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- member of
- National Academy of Sciences
- date of birth
- 1923-10-11
- date of death
- 1983-10-16
- name in native language
- हरीश चंद्र महरोत्रा
- birth name
- हरीश चंद्र महरोत्रा
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Harish-Chandra (né Harishchandra) 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.
==Early life== 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 1940, he moved to the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore for further studies under Homi J. Bhabha.
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