more-inSitting miles away at the Pauli Center for Theoretical Studies at Zurich in Switzerland, leading astrophysicist Thanu Padmanabhan remembers acclaimed Indian physicist E.C.G. Sudarshan as the “most brilliant theoretical physicist of Indian origin in the contemporary period.”Way back in 2005, Dr. Padmanabhan was among the 10 scientists who wrote to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on the wrongful omission of Prof. Sudarshan from then Nobel Physics prize. Sudarshan to the theory of quantum optics.”“Two of his contributions, one related to weak interactions and the other in the development of quantum optics, deserved Nobel Prize. Stating that Prof. Sudarshan was a victim of white supremacy in being denied the Nobel Prize, Babu Joseph, a theoretical physicist and former Vice Chancellor of Cochin University of Science and Technology, said that Prof. Sudarshan deserved to win the coveted award. “I have found him doing calculations while looking at tele-marketing shows even at 2 a.m. Prof. Sudarshan had a particular liking for such shows and was found ordering some of the products over telephone.

Source: The Hindu May 14, 2018 17:48 UTC