Tribute to Dr. R. Chidambaram
By Madhuri Thathachari
It is with great sorrow I learnt of Dr. R. Chidambaram’s demise on Jan. 4, 2025. He was not only an outstanding, distinguished and brilliant Scientist but also was a great human being. It was my good fortune that I came to know him personally because he was a friend of both my husband Prof. Y.T. Thathachari and my brother Prof. R. Srinivasan, who were both pursuing research at the Physics Department of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc.), Bangalore. Dr. Chidambaram told me he was two years junior to them.
Contributions to Science
I would like to share a few details about his immense contributions to Science and to India. Dr. Chidambaram made significant contributions in Neutron Crystallography, high pressure studies in Materials Science and in the nuclear weapons project of the Government of India. He got his B.Sc Honours in Physics in 1956, studying in Presidency College, Chennai and stood first in the University. He joined the Indian Institute of Science for his Ph.D and worked on Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. He got his Ph.D degree in 1962 and was awarded the Martin Foster Medal for the Best Thesis.
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