Harish-Chandra

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Harish-Chandra was a pioneering mathematician and physicist best known for his fundamental contributions to representation theory and harmonic analysis on Lie groups.


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instanceOf alumnus
human
mathematician
physicist
representation theorist
areaOfInfluence harmonic analysis on Lie groups
modern representation theory
awardReceived Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Algebra
surface form: "Cole Prize in Algebra"

Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)
surface form: "Fellow of the Royal Society"

Padma Bhushan
citizenship American
Indian
countryOfCitizenship India
United States of America
dateOfBirth 1923-10-11
dateOfDeath 1983-10-16
doctoralAdvisor Paul Dirac
educatedAt University of Allahabad
University of Cambridge NERFINISHED
employer Columbia University
Institute for Advanced Study
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
familyName Chandra
fieldOfWork Lie group
surface form: "Lie groups"

harmonic analysis
mathematics
representation theory
theoretical physics
givenName Harish
honouredIn Harish-Chandra Research Institute
influencedBy Hermann Weyl
Paul Dirac
Élie Cartan
memberOf School of Mathematics
surface form: "Institute for Advanced Study School of Mathematics"
nativeLanguage Hindi
notableStudent Nolan Wallach
notableWork Harish-Chandra character formula
Harish-Chandra isomorphism
Plancherel theorem for real reductive groups
representation theory of semisimple Lie groups
placeOfBirth Kanpur
United Provinces of Agra and Oudh
surface form: "United Provinces of British India"
placeOfDeath New Jersey, United States
surface form: "New Jersey"

Princeton NERFINISHED
United States of America
sexOrGender male
workLocation New York City
Princeton NERFINISHED

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