Ram Kumar Varma Papers
Scope and Contents
Series one contains correspondence which has been arranged chronologically. Mostly contains letters from colleagues, peers and collaborators as well as letters from administrators at TIFR, ISRO and PRL. Series two is related to Varma's research and scientific career. Sub-series one includes notebooks, PhD thesis and a few research books. Sub-series two contains administrative documents related to Varma's collaboration with other institutions while at PRL for exchange programmes, events etc. Sub-series three contains 35mm slides related to space sciences, plasma physics or observatories, mostly used as research reference or perhaps for lectures. Series three includes Varma's writings and speeches in the form of notes and drafts. It also includes drafts of poems in Hindi and English. Series four contains biographical material in the form of certificates and tributes. It also includes a few collectables and ephemeral objects. Series five contains photographs related to Varma's scientific career, this includes images from conferences and symposium in India and abroad.
Dates
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1968-2005
Creator
- Varma, Ram Kumar (Person)
- Ramachandran, Anjali (Processing Archivist, Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for access unless mentioned in specific folders of the finding aid.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright may not have been assigned to Archives, National Centre for Biological Sciences. Permission for reproduction or distribution must be obtained in writing from the Archives at NCBS (archives@ncbs.res.in). The Archives at NCBS makes no representation that it is the copyright owner in all of its collections. The user must obtain all necessary rights and clearances before use of material and material may only be reproduced for academic and non-commercial use.
Biographical / Historical
Ram Kumar Varma was born on 31 March 1935. Varma completed his BSc from Agra University in 1953 and MSc from Lucknow University in 1956. He then joined TIFR as a research assistant.As a Fullbright scholar, Varma completed in PhD from University of Californial La Jolla in 1965 under the plasma physicist Marshall Rosenbluth. Varma also worked as a research assistant at NASA Langley Research Centre before returning to TIFR in 1966. Varma joined Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) on the invitation of Sarabhai to join a new plasma physics programme. At PRL, Varma worked on various aspects of plasma instabilities, plasma turbulence with applications to fusion and space phenomena. His research was also focussed on quantum–classical relationship with respect to non-adiabatic effects in charged particle trajectories in a magnetic field. Varma also taught courses on plasma physics while at PRL and was its director between 1987-95.
Full Extent
3 Linear Feet (5 Hollinger archives boxes + 1 Oversized cabinet)
Language of Materials
English
Hindi
Physical Location
Archives at NCBS
Condition Description
The collection is in fairly good condition.
- Title
- Ram Kumar Varma Papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Anjali Ramachandran
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Archives at NCBS Repository
National Centre for Biological Sciences - Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Bangalore Karnataka 560065 India
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