Harish-Chandra

Harish-Chandra Mehrotra
Born	(1923-10-11)11 October 1923 Kanpur, British India
Died	16 October 1983(1983-10-16) (aged 60) Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Citizenship	United States[2]
Alma mater	University of Allahabad University of Cambridge
Known for	Harish-Chandra's c-function Harish-Chandra's character formula Harish-Chandra homomorphism Harish-Chandra isomorphism Harish-Chandra module Harish-Chandra's regularity theorem Harish-Chandra's Schwartz space Harish-Chandra transform Harish-Chandra's Ξ function
Awards	Fellow of the Royal Society[1] Cole Prize in Algebra (1954) Srinivasa Ramanujan Medal
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics, Physics
Institutions	Indian Institute of Science Harvard University Columbia University Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Institute for Advanced Study

Harish-Chandra Mehrotra FRS^[1][3] (11 October 1923 – 16 October 1983) was an Indian-American mathematician and physicist who did fundamental work in representation theory, especially harmonic analysis on semisimple Lie groups.^[4][5][6]