PROFESSOR PRADIP NARAYAN GHOSH
Vice-Chancellor
Office of the Vice-Chancellor : AUROBINDO BHAVAN
JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY, KOLKATA-700 032. INDIA
MESSAGE
It gives me immense pleasure to know that the Ex-Students of Jadavpur University are going to organize a popular science …
Prof. A. K. Datta
Retired Professor and former Head Dept of Applied Physics
Dept of Applied Optics and Photonics University of Calcutta
92 APC Road, Kolkata 700009 Mobile 0 93 3100 6142
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BIO-DATA : Professor (Dr.) Asit K. Datta was a Professor in the n…
Professor Dorairajan Balasubramanian
Director of Research, LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad
ABSTRACT
The cell is the fundamental unit of all life, and has two basic minimum features that define it as living: One is that it has the informational material which allows it to make more of…
Dr. M. K. Chattopadhyay
AcharyaPrafulla Chandra Ray (1861-1944) was one of those educationists and visionaries, through whom science-based Western education made inroads in the British- ruled India. Born in a remote village of East Bengal (now Bangladesh) he started his academic career in a local…
RC Chakraborty,
Visiting Professor, JUET, Guna,
Former Director of DTRL & ISSA (DRDO),
rcchak@gmail.com, www.myreaders.info
"To many readers, this article may appear as Myth and Speculation but will later agree that, it is reality".
About 5000 years ago, Roman Abacus the mac…
Partha Ghosal
Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory, Hyderabad
Abstract
Since its invention, electron microscope has been a valuable tool in the development of scientific theory and it contributed greatly to biology, medicine and material sciences and more recently the nano techno…
Susanta Dutta
Imagine Albert Einstein shouting at the pilot, "Damn, there goes my image again! How many times I told you not to fly at the speed of light when I am shaving!"
Let the story of one of the all time greats begin.
Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany (14.03.1879), j…
Dr. Madhab.K. Chattopadhyay
Ph.D. (Pharmacy 1990, Spl: Microbial Biochemistry)
Scientist, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CSIR), Hyderabad 500 007 Ph# 040-2719 2545, E-mail: mkc@ccmb.res.in
Introduction
Recently we have celebrated the 150th birth anniversary of Gur…
Bedadyuti Chakraborty
Ramanujan was ill. British mathematician G. H. Hardy came to see Ramanujan in the hospital which was situated in south-west London. Hardy's cab number was 1729 and he pointed the number as a dull one and unfavorable too. "No," Ramanujan replied and then told "it is a very in…
Devika Banerjee
First year College Student University of Delaware, USA E-mail: de_banerjee@yahoo.com
(Devika Banerjee is a devoted animal-lover, who is raising awareness about tigers for a year-long Environmental Service Project. Last summer, she trained and cared for abused dogs at the …
C.V. Raman is one of the most renowned scientists produced by India. His full name was Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman. For his pioneering work on scattering of light, C.V. Raman won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930. During those times there were not many opportunities for scientists in India. There…
Raja Rammohan Roy (1772-1833) was a reformer. He stood against the diabolical sati custom (burning of the widows with the corpse of their husbands) and ultimately persuaded the British Government to ban it. Being shocked with the parochial attitude of the followers of Hinduism and Christianity, he f…