Kerala Physicist Who Was Nominated for the Nobel Prize 9 Times!
Look at this man.
Name of the above gentleman is E C G Sudarshan, who was an Indian origin person, and professor at the University of Texas.
His work is in the field of Quantum Mechanics. Now, we all know who is considered to be the most intelligent scientist ever Mr.Albert Einstein.
This man challenged Einstein’s theory that ‘Nothing can travel faster than light’, although this theory could not be fully completed. His work in ‘Quantum level’ is considered to be great!
Coming to the question, we all know what is the value of the Nobel Prize. It’s an ultimate goal for the scientist to win the Nobel Prize, it’s a matter of veneration to receive one. Scientist sometimes spends their whole life just to be the nomination for the prestigious Nobel Prize.
You know, how many times was he Nominated for the Nobel Prize?
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9 TIMES!!!!
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And did not win even a single!
In a letter to Academy in 2005, he said,
“In the announcement of the 2005 Physics Nobel Prize, the Swedish Royal Academy has chosen R.J. Glauber to be awarded half of the prize. The prize winners are chosen by the Royal Academy, but no one has the right to take my discoveries and formulations and ascribe them to someone else!“The correct formulation of the quantum mechanical treatment of optics was carried out by me in my paper in 1963. In that, I showed that every state can be represented in the diagonal form… This diagonal representation is valid for all fields.“… The irony of the situation is that in spite of all these facts being available in print, the diagonal representation instead of being referred to as the Sudarshan representation is dubbed as either the P-Representation (as if Glauber discovered and named it first) or at best as `Glauber-Sudarshan’ Representation.“While the distinction of introducing coherent states as basic entities to describe optical fields certainly goes to Glauber, the possibility of using them to describe `all’ optical fields (of all intensities) through the diagonal representation is certainly due to Sudarshan.Thus there is no need to `extract’ the classical limit [as stated in the Nobel citation]. Sudarshan’s work is not merely a mathematical formalism. It is the basic theory underlying all optical fields. All the quantum features are brought out in his diagonal representation…“It is my belief that the Royal Swedish Academy was impartial and that to assure the proper priorities it has a Committee in Physics, with members competent to examine and understand the published work. It was also my belief that the members of the Committee did their work diligently and with care.I am therefore genuinely surprised and disappointed by this year’s choice. It would distress me and many others if extra-scientific considerations were responsible for this decision. It is my hope that these glaring injustices would be noted by the Academy and modify the citations.Give unto Glauber only what is his”.
If this is not the definition of the unluckiest person, then I don’t know what it is!
Sadly, he died in May this year in Texas without winning one! Although he is the recipient of Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan (2nd highest civilian award by the Indian government after prestigious Bharat Ratna)
Maybe Nobel Prize doesn’t deserve Sir E C G Sudarshan, just like Stephen Hawking.
Or like Tom Cruise/Johnny Depp/Brad Pitt/Robert Downey Jr did not win Oscar.
Perhaps, they don’t need those Awards and recognition to prove how marvelous they are!
Feeling lucky after reading this??
You should be
P.S: Albert Einstein was also nominated 8 times for Physics and 1 time for Chemistry. And won one for Physics in the year 1921 for ‘Photo-Electric effect’
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