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My Take
Raman Sundrum belongs to that rare group whose ideas reshape how we picture reality itself. The Randall-Sundrum models he co-authored in 1999 tackled why gravity is so absurdly weak, invoking warped extra dimensions that most of us can barely visualize. What I admire is the audacity of that imagination, paired with the discipline to make it rigorous enough to win the Sakurai Prize. His path from Chennai to Yale to a Distinguished Professorship at Maryland is a reminder that the frontier of physics is genuinely global. I respect minds willing to wager their careers on the unseen.
Overview
Raman Sundrum (born 1964) is an Indian-American theoretical particle physicist. He contributed to the field with a class of models called the Randall–Sundrum models, first published in 1999 with Lisa Randall. Sundrum is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland and the director of Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics.
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Raman Sundrum
- Name (Japanese)
- ラマン・サンドラム
- Reading
- らまん・さんどらむ
- Born
- January 1, 1964 (age 62)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Capricorn / Dragon
- Origin
- Chennai, Chennai district, India
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- physicist / university teacher
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Yale University
Awards & achievements
- Fellow of the American Physical Society
- 2019 Sakurai Prize
- 2011 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.