Chennai:

Chennai-born Dr Ramamoorthy Ramesh, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, is in the list 27 recently issued by Thomson Reuters as potential scientists likely to win the Nobel Prize for Physics this year. The award will be announced on October 7.

Dr Ramesh is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and had gone to Berkeley in 1987 for Ph.D at the University of California. He joined the university faculty in 2004 in the materials science and engineering and physics departments. His work mostly focused on complex oxides.

In the Reuters list of Nobel probables, Dr Ramesh’s name figures with those of James Scott of the University of Cambridge and Yoshinori Tokura of University of Tokyo for their work in ferroelectric memory devices and multiferroic materials. Thomson Reuters has so far predicted correctly 35 Nobel winners.

source: http://www.deccanchronicle.com / Deccan Chronicle / Home> Nation> Current Affairs / DC Correspondent / October 02nd, 2014