Ranganathan Gregoire Yogeshwar (born 18 May 1959) is a Luxembourgish
physicist and science journalist. He started gaining attention at the
end of the 1980s in the German-speaking area for his science
documentaries that were often coupled with critical analysis and
prognoses of the societal effects of research in the natural
sciences.Yogeshwar grew up in Bangalore and Luxembourg and went to
primary school in both places. His father is an Indian engineer and
his mother a Luxembourgish art historian. He has a younger sister and
a twin brother, Pierre Kalyana Yogeshwar, who is also a physicist. His
grandfather was mathematician and librarian S. R. Ranganathan, the
developer of the colon classification. Growing up, he spoke
Luxembourgish, German, French, English, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi and
Malayalam (the latter three to communicate with his housekeeper,
teacher, and gardener, respectively).Yogeshwar studied music in
Luxembourg and obtained his Diplôme de fin d’études secondaires
(equivalent to British A-Levels) at the Lycée classique de Diekirch.
He studied at the RWTH Aachen in Aachen, Germany, graduating with a
Diplom degree in experimental physics. He worked at the Swiss
Institute for Nuclear Research (SIN), at CERN, both in Switzerland and
at the Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany. In 1983, he started
working in radio and television for various stations. During a stay in
India in 1985, he led a series of seminars and conferences, including
one at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore.
Ranga Yogeshwar Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter
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