By Madhuri Thathachari
It is with great sorrow I learnt of Dr. R. Chidambaram’s demise on Jan. 4, 2025. He was not only an outstanding, distinguished and brilliant Scientist but also was a great human being. It was my good fortune that I came to know him personally because he was a friend of both my husband Prof. Y.T. Thathachari and my brother Prof. R. Srinivasan, who were both pursuing research at the Physics Department of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc.), Bangalore. Dr. Chidambaram told me he was two years junior to them.
