The family of Professor George Sudarshan has established the George Sudarshan Endowed Excellence Fund for Graduate Support in Physics in memory of Dr. Sudarshan’s journey as a physicist and his dedication to teaching and mentoring students as a longtime member of the physics faculty at the University of Texas at Austin.

Dr. Sudarshan made many important contributions to theoretical physics, beginning during his time as a graduate student and continuing throughout his career as a professor of physics at UT from 1969 to 2016. Working with his Ph.D. advisor, Robert Marshak, Sudarshan created the V-A theory of the weak force, a discovery that was crucial to the unification of weak and electromagnetic interactions. Later, Dr. Sudarshan and Roy Glauber developed a quantum mechanical description of light that would become the foundation of a new field: quantum optics.

Throughout his career, he also continued to contribute to research and education in his home country of India, serving as a senior professor at the Center for Theoretical Studies at the Indian Institute of Sciences (1971-1991) and director of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Chennai, India (1984-1991).

For those who would like to honor Dr. Sudarshan’s memory and promote outstanding physics at UT, we are now raising funds to increase the value of the endowment to $100,000, which will create the George Sudarshan Graduate Fellowship in Physics. All pledges in support of this goal may be paid over a five-year window. This endowment will support graduate students in the Department of Physics at the University of Texas at Austin in perpetuity.

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