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Raman Singh (रमन सिंह)
Raman Singh (रमन सिंह), born 1952, is a BJP leader, three-term Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh (2003–2018), known as 'chawal baba' for PDS rice reforms, now Speaker of the state assembly.
Raman Skirmunt
Raman Skirmunt (Раман Скірмунт, 1868 to 1939) was a Belarusian statesman and landowner who chaired the Belarusian National Committee and was named to head the People's Secretariat in 1918.
Raman spectroscopy
Raman spectroscopy, based on the Raman effect discovered by C.V. Raman in 1928, identifies a sample's chemical composition and molecular structure by measuring laser light scattered with shifted vibrational energies.
Raman thermometry
Raman thermometry is a contactless optical technique that measures local temperature from Raman peak shifts, with sub-micron resolution, used to characterize semiconductors and microelectronic devices.
Raman transition
A Raman transition is a two-photon process in which two laser beams differing by a qubit's energy splitting couple its levels through a virtual intermediate state.
Ramana Maharshi
Ramana Maharshi, also known as Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi, was a Hindu sage and yogi (1879–1950) of Tiruvannamalai, India, known for self-enquiry, the method of asking "Who am I?"
Ramanan
Ramanan (രമണൻ) is a Malayalam pastoral elegy in verse drama form, written by Changampuzha Krishna Pillai and published in 1936 as a memorial to the poet Edappally Raghavan Pillai.
Ramanan Krishnamoorti
Ramanan Krishnamoorti is a chemical engineer and polymer scientist at the University of Houston, known for work on polymer nanocomposites and a leader in energy innovation there.
Ramanan Laxminarayan
Ramanan Laxminarayan is an American health economist who studies antimicrobial resistance as an economics problem, leads the One Health Trust, and serves as a senior research scholar at Princeton University.
Ramanand Sagar
Ramanand Sagar (1917–2005), Indian film director and producer, founder of Sagar Art, creator of the 78-episode Doordarshan serial Ramayan (1987–88), also Vikram Aur Betaal, Shri Krishna, Alif Laila; Padma Shri 2000.
Ramananda
Ramananda, also Ramanand (Hindi रामानंद), was a Vaishnava devotional teacher associated with Varanasi, remembered as founder of the Ramanandi sampradaya, North India's largest monastic order.
Ramanandi Sampradaya
The Ramanandi Sampradaya (रामानन्दी सम्प्रदाय), also called the Ramavat sampradaya, is a Vaishnava order devoted to Ram, traced to the saint Ramananda and today North India's largest devotional community.
Ramanath Cowsik
Ramanath Cowsik is an Indian-American astroparticle physicist, the James S. McDonnell Professor of Space Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2004.
Ramanatha
Ramanatha, also called Vira Ramanatha, was a Hoysala king of southern India who ruled the kingdom's southern, Tamil-speaking portion from 1253 to 1295, feuding with his brother Narasimha III.
Ramanathan (Martian crater)
Ramanathan is a Martian impact crater, 89.00 km in diameter, located in north-central Arabia. It was named for Indian physicist Kalpathy Ramakrishna Ramanathan in 2022.
Ramanathan Vaidhyanathan
Ramanathan Vaidhyanathan is an Indian materials chemist at IISER Pune who studies metal-organic frameworks for carbon capture, known for a 2010 Science paper on CO2 binding.
Ramanathaswamy Temple (இராமநாதசுவாமி கோயில்)
Ramanathaswamy Temple (இராமநாதசுவாமி கோயில்), also called Rameswaram Temple, is a Hindu temple to Shiva on Pamban Island in Tamil Nadu, India, one of the twelve Jyotirlinga shrines.
Ramanbhai Patel
Ramanbhai B. Patel (1925–2001) was an Indian pharmaceutical entrepreneur who co-founded Cadila Laboratories in Ahmedabad with Indravadan A. Modi in 1952, building the business that became Zydus Cadila.
Ramanbhai Solanki
Ramanbhai Solanki is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who serves as a cabinet minister in Gujarat with the Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs portfolio.
Ramani Durvasula
Ramani Durvasula, known online as "Doctor Ramani," is an American clinical psychologist, professor emerita at California State University, Los Angeles, and author of books on narcissism.
Ramanlal Desai
Ramanlal Vasantlal Desai (રમણલાલ દેસાઈ; 1892–1954) was a Gujarati novelist, playwright, and poet of the Gandhian era who wrote about 68 books, including the popular novel Divyachakshu.
Ramanlal Soni
Ramanlal Soni (રમણલાલ સોની; pen name Sudamo; 1908–2006) was a Gujarati children's writer and translator who produced roughly 400 books and led translations of Bengali literature.
Ramanuj Gopalan
Ramanuj Gopalan is Partner and General Counsel at Elevation Capital, an Indian venture capital firm, heading its legal function across investments, exits, and portfolio governance since 2015.
Ramanuja
Ramanuja (1017–1137 CE), Tamil Sri Vaishnava acharya who systematized Vishishtadvaita Vedanta, wrote the Sri Bhashya and Vedartha-sangraha, and opened temple worship to all castes.
Ramanujan (film)
Ramanujan (ராமானுஜன்) is a 2014 Tamil-English biographical film directed by Gnana Rajasekaran, starring Abhinay Vaddi as mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan; distinct from the 2015 Dev Patel film The Man Who Knew Infinity.
Ramanujan Hegde
Ramanujan S. Hegde, known as Manu Hegde, is a British-based biochemist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge who studies protein translocation and quality control.
Ramanujan summation
Ramanujan summation is a technique by Srinivasa Ramanujan for assigning finite values to divergent series, famously giving 1 + 2 + 3 + ⋯ the value −1/12.
Ramanujan tau function
The Ramanujan tau function is the sequence of Fourier coefficients of the weight-12 cusp form Δ, introduced by Ramanujan in 1916. It is multiplicative, satisfies striking congruences, and Deligne proved its size bound in 1974.
Ramanujan–Petersson conjecture
The Ramanujan–Petersson conjecture, also called the Ramanujan conjecture, bounds the Fourier coefficients of modular forms; Ramanujan proposed it in 1916 and Deligne proved it for holomorphic forms.
Ramanujan–Sato series
Ramanujan–Sato series are infinite series for 1/π extending the seventeen series Ramanujan announced in 1914, built from a construction associated with Takeshi Sato; the Chudnovsky series used for world-record π computations belongs to the family.