August 9, 2023 was the birth centenary of the eminent physicist Alladi Ramakrishnan, who founded MATSCIENCE, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), in Chennai on 3rd January, 1962, and served as its Director until his retirement in 1983 at the age of sixty.
Nobel Laureate Donald Glaser (Berkeley), Alladi Ramakrishnan and V Devanathan, Theoretical Physics Seminar, January 1960
Prof. Alladi Ramakrishnan with Field Marshal K.M. Cariappa and Nobel Laureate Jensen, at Matscience, 3-7 January 1964.
Nobel Laureate J. Hans D. Jensen with Alladi Ramakrishnan
Vijayalakshmi Pandit in conversation with Prof. Alladi Ramakrishnan during the 13th Anniversary Symposium on 4 February 1975
Nobel Laureate Prof. Abdus Salam with Prof. Alladi Ramakrishnan , 12 January 1981
(L-R) K. Srinivasa Rao, Paul Erdos, Krishnaswami Alladi and Alladi Ramakrishnan on 1 June 1981
Alladi Ramakrishnan during a discussion with Prof. George E. Andrews Pennsylvania State University, USA, Matscience, 9 October 1981. (L-R) R. Jagannathan, G.E. Andrews, R. Sridhar, A.R. Balakrishnan and Alladi Ramakrishnan.
Prof. Alladi Ramakrishnan interact with USSR scientific delegates, Prof. V. S .Vladimiror and Prof. J. A. Rozoror of Steklov Institute of Mathematics, Moscow, during the visit of Prof. V. S. Vladimiror and Prof. J. A. Rozoror on 28 January 1983
Prof. Alladi Ramakrishnan addressing the gathering during, 8th Anniversary Symposium, on 10 January 1970. (L-R) Alladi Ramakrishnan, Ujjal Singh, V.V. Giri, V.R. Nedunchezhiyan, Nobel Laureate Hans Bethe
Director Prof. Alladi Ramakrishnan in discussion Prof. Vikram Sarabhai with the chairman, Atomic Energy Commission, DAE, 2 August 1968
Alladi Ramakrishnan in discussion with the Russian delegation at Matscience in December 1963. Leon Rosenfeld is next to Alladi Ramakrishnan.
Prof. Alladi Ramakrishnan addressing the gathering during Prof. Jayant V. Narlikar's lecture on "Theories of Gravitation".
Prof. Alladi Ramakrishnan discussion with Nobel laureate Linus Pauling and J.H. Williamson.
Prof. Alladi Ramakrishnan giving Talk during the Conference on "Mathematical Methods in Physics" 28-31 August, 1978 Mysore.
(L-R) Prof. Abdus Salam (FRS), Professor Alladi Ramakrishnan and others at Ekamra Nivas, January, 1960.
Alladi Ramakrishnan in discussion with Carl Friedrich Von Weizsacker
Alladi Ramakrishnan and Niels Bohr
(L-R) Prof. Alladi Ramakrishnan in discussion with Prof. Philip S Jastrom, N.R. Ranganathan, T.K. Radha and Prof. Keith Symon.
Prof. Alladi Ramakrishnan in discussion with Prof. Keith Symon
Prof. Alladi Ramakrishnan speaking with Prof. Gerson Goldhaber and Prof. Sulaimath Goldhaber during their visit to Matscience, December 1965
Mr. P. R. S. Rao, Managing Director, Hindustan Photo and Prof. Alladi Ramakrishnan on the dais during the 2nd Conference on "Number Theory" on 3-7 August 1980
![Alladi Ramakrishnan addressing the audience. [L-R] Marshall Stone, C. Subramaniam, V.R. Nedunchezhian, Atma Ram](assets/images/20230224103217-36860098-xs.png)
Alladi Ramakrishnan addressing the audience. [L-R] Marshall Stone, C. Subramaniam, V.R. Nedunchezhian, Atma Ram
Prof. Leonard I. Schiff in conversation with Justice Patanjali Sastri. Prof. Alladi Ramakrishnan in the rear. Young Krishnaswany Alladi between Prof. Leonard I. Schiff and Justice Patanjali Sastri.
Prof. Alladi Ramakrishnan along with participants during the International Conference on Functional Analysis and its Application, 1-7 January 1973
Alladi Ramakrishnan (second from left) with His Excellency S.L Khurana, Governor of Tamil Nadu, addressing the Participants during the 21st anniversary symposium on 29 January 1983.
Alladi Ramakrishnan and Subramanyam Chandrashekhar inaugurating the institute
Prof. Alladi Ramakrishan when astronaut Alan Bean visited the Library of MATSCIENCE
Alladi Ramakrishnan with Nobel Laureate Hans Bethe, wife Rose Ewald at Ekamra Nivas
Alladi Ramakrishnan on the dias with (L-R) A. Padmanabhan, K.R.Narayanan, C.Subramaniam, and H.B.N.Shetty during the foundation stone laying ceremony of library complex and hostel complex on 13 January 1989
Inspired by the more than one hundred seminars on modern physics that he heard during his visit to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 1957-58 at the invitation of its Director Dr. Robert Oppenheimer, Professor Ramakrishnan, on his return to Madras started a theoretical Physics Seminar in his family home Ekamra Nivas. For that seminar, he regularly invited physicists and mathematicians of world renown to lecture to the eager students who gathered around him to do their PhD. One such visitor, Nobel Laureate Niels Bohr, who touring India in 1960 as the guest of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, said at a press meeting at the conclusion of his tour that two things impressed him the most - the massive set up of the Tata Institute directed by Prof. Homi Bhabha in Bombay, and the small band of students trained by Prof. Ramakrishnan in Madras! That prompted the Prime Minister to meet Prof. Ramakrishnan and his students at the Raj Bhavan in Chennai on 8th October, 1961. Within two months, the Institute of Mathematical Sciences was inaugurated.
In the six decades since its founding in 1962, the Institute has grown from its humble beginnings with just three rooms at the Presidency College in Madras and a very modest budget, to a leading research institution in India. The institute will celebrate and pay homage to its Founder-Director at The Alladi Ramakrishnan Centenary Conference during December 16-18, 2023 at its campus in Taramani, Chennai.