Ranga Dias (scientist)

Ranga Dias is a Sri Lankan born physicist who is an assistant professor of at the University of Rochester.
He graduated from the Department of Physics, Colombo University, Sri Lanka and moved to Washington, USA in 2007 for Ph.D. work at Washington State University in the field of extreme condensed matter physics.
In January 2017, as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, Dias and Isaac Silvera reported the creation of solid metallic hydrogen using a diamond anvil cell. This state of hydrogen was originally predicted by Wigner and Huntington in 1935. However, several physicists expressed skepticism about the result.
In October 2020, Dias' group at the University of Rochester reported the first-ever creation of a room temperature superconductor, a carbonaceous sulfur hydride system whose chemical formula is still not fully known (described as "a photochemically transformed carbonaceous sulfur hydride system") which exhibited superconducting properties at a temperature of and pressure of 267 ± 10 gigapascals.

Main Menu

See Also

Main Menu