List of Famous people with last name Sudan

Ravindra Sudan

First Name Ravindra
Last Name Sudan
Born on June 8, 1931
Died on January 22, 2009 (aged 77)

Ravindra Nath Sudan was an Indian-American electrical engineer and physicist who specialized in plasma physics. He was known for independently discovering the whistler instability in 1963, an instability which causes audible low-frequency radio waves to be emitted in the magnetosphere in the form of whistler waves. He also pioneered the study of the generation and propagation of intense ion beams, and contributed to theories of plasma instabilities and plasma turbulence.

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