Background
Sudan, Ravindra Nath was born on June 8, 1931 in Chineni, Kashmir, India. Came to United States, 1958, naturalized, 1971. Son of Brahm Nath and Shanti Devi (Mehta) Sudan.
educator physicist electrical engineer
Sudan, Ravindra Nath was born on June 8, 1931 in Chineni, Kashmir, India. Came to United States, 1958, naturalized, 1971. Son of Brahm Nath and Shanti Devi (Mehta) Sudan.
Bachelor with first class honors, University Punjab, 1948. Diploma, Indian Institute of Science, 1952. Diploma, Imperial College, London, 1953.
Doctor of Philosophy, University London, 1955.
Engineer, British Thomson-Houston Company, Rugby, Eng, 1955-1957. Engineer Imperial Chemical Industries, Calcutta, India, 1957-1958. Research associate Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1958-1959, assistant professor electrical engineering, 1959-1963, associate professor, 1963-1968, professor, 1968-1975, International Business Machines Corporation professor engineering, 1975—2001, International Business Machines Corporation professor engineering emeritus, from 2001, director Laboratory Plasma Studies, 1975-1985, deputy director Cornell Theory Center, 1985-1987, professor, from 1987.
Consultant Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, Los Alamos Science Laboratory, Science Applications Inc., Physics International Company. Visiting research associate Stanford University, summer 1963. Consultant United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Culham Laboratory, summer 1965.
Visiting scientist International Center Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, 1965-1966, summers 1970, 73, Plasma Physics Laboratory Princeton University, 1966-1967, spring 1989, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, spring 1975. Head theoretical plasma physics group United States Naval Research Laboratory, 1970-1971, science adviser to director, 1974-1975. Chairman Annual Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Controlled Fusion, 1975, 2d International Conference on High Power Electron and Ion Beam Research and Technology, 1977.
Fellow Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Physical Society (Maxwell prize 1989), National Research Council (chairman Plasma Science committee since 1993).
Married Dipali Ray, July 3, 1959. Children: Rajani, Ranjeet.