Arvind Rajaraman
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Arvind Rajaraman is an India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

n-born theoretical physicist and string theorist
String theory
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. Rajaraman earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University
Stanford University
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. He is an associate professor at University of California, Irvine
University of California, Irvine
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The first time that India received any medals in International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO) was in 1989, when four among six Indian participants received a bronze medal. Rajaraman was one of these four bronze medal winning participants.

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