ECG SUDARSHAN WON PRESTIGIOUS DIRAC MEDAL

ECG SUDARSHAN WON PRESTIGIOUS
DIRAC MEDAL
Ennackal Chandy George Sudarshan, 78, shares the Dirac 2010 medal with Italian physicist Nicola Cabibbo.
Professor Sudharshan’s contributions to theoretical physics include the discovery of V-A theory of weak interactions, which opened the way for full description of the united electroweak theory.
The Dirac Medal of ICTP is awarded by the Abdu Salam International Centre for Theoretical physics (ICTP) on renowned physicist P.A.M Dirac’s birthday-August 8. It was first awarded in 1985. The winners also receive a prize of $5,000.
One of the criteria that the recipients must qualify is that they should not have won a Nobel Prize, the Fields Medal or the Wolf Foundation prize till the Dirac Medal was conferred on them.
Both professor Cabibbo and Professor Sudarshan were passed over the Nobel Committee earlier. The Italian physicist in 2008 and Professor Sudarshan in 1970 and 2005.
Professor Sudarshan, originally from Pallam in Kottayam district of Kerala, has taught at the Tata Institute of Fundamental research, University of Rochester, Syracuse University and Harvard.
He has been a Professor at the University since 1969 and a senior professor at the Indian Institute of Mathematical Science Chennai for five years during the 1980s, dividing his time between India and the U.S.
His areas of interest include elementary particle physics, quantum optics, quantum information, quantum field theory, gauge field theories, classical mechanics and foundation of physics.
Prof. John Kurakar