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Authorised form of nameKrishnan; Sir; Kariamanikkam Srinivasa (1898 - 1961)
Dates1898 - 1961
NationalityIndian
Date of birth04 December 1898
Date of death14/06/1961
ActivityEducation:
DSc
Career:
Mahendralal Sircar Research Professor of Physics
Honours:
Kt 1946
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election14/03/1940
Other Royal Society activitySignature in Charter Book appears in 1946, together with Birbal Sahni and Prasanto Mahalanobis, who attended the Royal Society for an extraordinary meeting on 18 July 1946 organized by the Society for the purpose of admitting Foreign and other Members elected in recent years as part of the Newton Tercentenary Celebrations
SourcesObituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1967 vol 13 pp 245-255, plate, by Kathleen Lonsdale and H J Bhabha
References:
D C V Mallik, 'The Raman Effect and Krishnan's Diary' in NR 2000 vol 54 pp 67-83, plate
J C D Brand, 'The Discovery of the Raman Effect' in NR 1989 vol 43 pp 1-23
R Singh and F Riess, 'The nobel laureate Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman FRS and his contacts with the British Scientific community in a social and political context' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 47-64
Year Book 1947 Annual Report for 1946
Royal Society codeNA7985
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
IM/002574Krishnan, SIr Kariamanikkam Srinivasand
EC/1940/12Krishnan, Sir Kariamanikkam Srinivasa: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/43/84Referee's report by Edward Arthur Milne, on a paper 'The broadening of the lines in the absorption spectra of the alkaline metallic vapours' by Kariamanikkam Srinivasa KrishnanSeptember 1930
RR/46/18Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'Investigations of magne-crystallic action. Part II.-Paramagnetics' by Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan, N C Chakravorty and S Banerjee[December 1932]
RR/46/19Referee's report by Piotr Leonidovich Kapitza, on a paper 'Investigations of magne-crystallic action. Part II.-Paramagnetics' by Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan, N C Chakravorty and S Banerjee[January 1933]
RR/54/17Referee's report by John Cunningham McLennan, on a paper 'Investigations on magne-crystallic action IV Magnetic behaviour of paramagnetic ions in the s-state in crystals' by Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan and S BanerjeeSeptember 1935
RR/38/116Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh on a paper 'The production of new radiations by light scattering. Part I' by Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman and Kariamanikkam Srinivasa KrishnanAugust 1928
RR/54/18Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'Investigations on magne-crystallic action IV Magnetic behaviour of paramagnetic ions in the s-state in crystals' by Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan and S BanerjeeOctober 1935
RR/67/269Referee's report by William Lawrence Bragg, on a paper 'Magnetic and other properties of the free electrons in graphite' Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan and N GanguliSeptember 1940
RR/70/25Referee's report by Max Born, on a paper 'Diffuse scattering of the Fermi electrons in monovalent metals in relation to their electrical resistivities' by A B Bhatia and Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan1947
RR/70/24Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'Light-scattering in homogeneous media regarded as reflexion from appropriate thermal elastic waves' by A B Bhatia and Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan1947
RR/35/132Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'The magnetic anisotropy of crystalline nitrates and carbonates' by Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan and Chandrasekhara Venkata RamanApril 1927
RR/65/155Referee's report by Edmund Clifton Stoner, on a paper 'Investigation on magne-crystallic action VI. Further studies on paramagnetic crystals' by Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan, A Mookherji and A BoseOctober 1938
IM/002576Krishnan, Sir Kariamanikkam Srinivasand
RR/46/17Second referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'Investigations on magne-crystallic action. Part I.-Diamagnetics' by Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan, B C Guha and S Banerjee[August 1932]
IM/002575Krishnan, Sir Kariamanikkam Srinivasand
RR/46/15Referee's report by Piotr Leonidovich Kapitza, on a paper 'Investigations on magne-crystallic action. Part I.-Diamagnetics' by Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan, B C Guha and S Banerjee[April 1932]
RR/36/45Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'A theory of electric and magnetic birefringence in liquids' by Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman and Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan[August 1927]
RR/34/84Referee's report by Arthur Schuster, on a paper 'Magnetic double-refraction in liquids. part I.—benzene and its derivatives' by Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman and Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan18 September 1926
RR/36/44Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'A theory of the optical and electrical properties of liquids' by Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman and Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan[October 1927]
RR/38/96Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'The influence of molecular form and anisotropy on the refractivity and dielectric behaviour of liquids' by Kariamanikkam Srinivasa KrishnanOctober 1929
RR/43/85Referee's report by Thomas Ralph Merton, on a paper 'The broadening of the lines in the absorption spectra of the alkaline metallic vapours' by Kariamanikkam Srinivasa KrishnanAugust 1930
RR/46/16Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'Investigations on magne-crystallic action. Part I.-Diamagnetics' by Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan, B C Guha and S Banerjee[May 1932]
RR/53/16Referee's report by John Cunningham McLennan, on a paper 'Investigations on magne-crystallic action III—Further studies on organic crystals' by Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan and S Banerjee[October 1934]
RR/53/17Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'Investigations on magne-crystallic action III—Further studies on organic crystals' by Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan and S Banerjee[October 1934]
RR/58/58Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'Diamagnetic anisotrophy of crystals in relation to their molecular structure' by Kathleen Yardley Lonsdale and Kariamanikkam Srinivasa KrishnanApril 1936
RR/64/90Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'Investigations on magne-crystallic action V. Paramagnetic salts of the rare earth and iron groups' by Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan and A Mookherji[September 1937]
RR/65/154Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'Investigation on magne-crystallic action VI. Further studies on paramagnetic crystals' by Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan, A Mookherji and A Bose25 September 1938
RR/70/26Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'Diffuse scattering of the Fermi electrons in monovalent metals in relation to their electrical resistivities' by A B Bhatia and Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan15 December 1947
RR/77/16Referee's report by Alan Herries Wilson, on a paper 'The thermionic constants of metals and semi-conductors. I. Graphite' by S C Jain and Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan12 February 1952
RR/77/269Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Thermionic constants of metals and semiconductors. III. Monovalent metals' by S C Jain and Sir Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan5 January 1953
RR/79/174Referee's report by Owen [Willans] Richardson, on a paper 'The distribution of temperature along a thin rod electrically heated in vacuo I Theoretical' by S C Jain and Sir Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan3 October 1953
RR/75/7Referee's report by Nevill Francis Mott, on a paper 'The frequencies and the anharmonicities of the normal modes of oscillation alkali halide crystals. I. Lattice oscillations' by Sir Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan and Sanat Kumar Roy30 January 1951
RR/75/255Referee's report by Nevill Francis Mott, on a paper 'The frequencies and the anharmonicities of the normal modes of oscillation of alkali halide crystals. II. Low frequency acoustic modes' by Sir Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan and Sanat Kumar Roy2 October 1951
RR/77/162Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'Thermionic constants of metals and semiconductors. II. Metals of the first transition group' by S C Jain and Sir Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan28 August 1952
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