Physicist Sriram Ramaswamy elected Fellow of the Royal Society
Q. Which Indian physicist has been elected as Fellow of the Royal Society?- Published on 03 May 16a. Sriram Ramaswamy
b. Sriram Ramanujan
c. Sriram Gopalan
d. None of the above
ANSWER: Sriram Ramaswamy
Physicist Sriram Ramaswamy, Director of TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Hyderabad, has been elected as the Fellow of The Royal Society.
- His name appeared on the list of 50 new fellows and 10 new Foreign Members announced by the Royal Society.
- Besides, biochemist Ramanujan Hegde, MRC Laboratory of Microbiology, U.K. and applied mathematician Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan, Harvard University, are the other two Indian names who were also elected as the fellows of the premier scientific academy of the U.K. and the Commonwealth.