User:Vatsal19/Vinay Ambegaokar
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Vinay Ambegaokar | |
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| Born | 16 January 1934 |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Carnegie Institute of Technology |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Condensed matter physics |
| Institutions | University of Oxford New College, Oxford Princeton University |
| Doctoral advisor | Walter Kohn |
Vinay Ambegaokar is an Indian-American theoretical physicist, known for his contributions to the field of condensed matter physics. He is the Goldwin Smith Professor of Physics Emeritus at the University of Cornell[1]. He has also written a book titled Reasoning about Luck: Probability and its Uses in Physics, which is aimed at a nonscience audience and describes the use of probability theory in physics[2].
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[edit]Category:Condensed matter physicists Category:Indian condensed matter physicists Category:Indian theoretical physicists Category:20th-century Indian physicists Category:American academics of Indian descent