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Chanchal Kumar Majumdar

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Chanchal Kumar Majumdar was an Indian theoretical physicist working in condensed matter physics and quantum mechanics, and the founding director of the S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences in Kolkata. With Dipan Ghosh he developed the Majumdar-Ghosh model, an exactly solvable model of quantum antiferromagnetism that remains a standard reference point in the study of frustrated spin systems.

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Birth Year
1938 1
Death Date
2000-06-20 1
Death Year
2000 1
Death Place
Kolkata, India 1
Nationality
British Raj 1
Nationality
Dominion of India 1
Nationality
India 1
Birthplace
Kolkata, India 1
Field
Field (category)
Physics 1
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1. Chanchal Kumar Majumdar (Wikidata)
  • P570 (date of death): year
    +2000-06-20T00:00:00Z
  • P570 (date of death): full date
    +2000-06-20T00:00:00Z
  • P27 (country of citizenship): India
    Q668
  • P20 (place of death): Kolkata, India
    Q1348
  • P27 (country of citizenship): British Raj
    Q129286
  • P19 (place of birth): Kolkata, India
    Q1348
  • P27 (country of citizenship): Dominion of India
    Q1775277
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Chanchal Kumar Majumdar (Wikipedia)
  • Works In: Physics, Infobox, fields
    Infobox fields: Condensed matter physics
  • Works In: Physics, Lead sentence
    Chanchal Kumar Majumdar () (11 August 1938-20 June 2000) was an Indian condensed matter physicist and the founder director of S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences.
  • Member Of: National Academy of Sciences, Categories
    Category:Fellows of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Member Of: American Physical Society, Article text
    He became an elected fellow of the American Physical Society and delivered the Santanu Ghosh Memoria
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