Rangaswamy srinivasan biography of michael

Rangaswamy Srinivasan (born February 28, 1929, in Madras, India^[1]) is a physical chemist and inventor with a 30-year career at IBM Research.

He has developed techniques for ablative photodecomposition and used them to contribute to the development of LASIK eye surgery.

Rangaswamy srinivasan biography of michael

He received the National Medal of Technology from President Obama on February 2, 2013, for his contributions to laser eye surgery.

Education

Srinivasan was born in India on February 28, 1929.^[2] Srinivasan received both bachelor's and master's degrees in science from the University of Madras, in 1949 and 1950.^[2] In 1953 he moved to the United States to attend graduate school.

He earned a doctorate in physical chemistry at the University of Southern California in 1956, studying protein chemistry with chemical kineticist Sidney W. Benson.^[3] He held postdoctoral positions at the California Institute of Technology in 1956, and at the University o