New Book: Worlds Beyond Our Own
Prof. Sujan Sengupta, IIA has written a book on “Worlds Beyond Our Own” and Springer has published the book recently. Read More:
Nature makes all articles free to view
Dear Colleagues, All research papers from Nature will be made free to read in a proprietary screen-view format that can be annotated but not copied, printed or downloaded, the journal’s publisher Macmillan announced on 2 December. Nature makes all articles free to view Investigations launched into artificial tracheas Bullet-proof armour and hydrogen sieve add to graphene’s promise The…
IOP Publishing congratulates 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics
Dear Colleagues, IOP Publishing congratulates scientists Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura on becoming the latest Nobel prize laureates for their invention of “efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources. ” In recognition of Akasaki, Amano and Nakamura’s landmark achievements, we are making a collection of breakthrough…
AIP congratulates 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics
Dear Colleagues, AIP congratulates Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, and Shuji Nakamura on their receipt of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics “for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources.” Seminal papers from AIP Publishing (free access through 12/31/14), The collection of papers can be found…
Nobel Prize in Physics 2014
Dear Colleagues, The Nobel Prize in Physics 2014 was awarded jointly to Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura “for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources”. Source: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2014/ With Regards, Librarian
New Books Display October 2014
Indian Institute of Astrophysics Library Koramangala Bangalore – 560 034 India List of Books Displayed on 1st Oct 2014 1 Bertin, Giuseppe Dynamics of galaxies.–2nd ed.– Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 524.7/ BER 19844 2 Boyd, Robert W. Nonlinear optics.–3rd. ed.: Academic Press, 2008. 535/ BOY 19841 3 Dorband, Bernd , Muller, Henriette and Gross,…
A World Class Scientist and His Work
A World Class Scientist and His Work Shobhit Mahajan KARIAMANIKKAM SRINIVASA KRISHNAN: HIS LIFE AND WORK By D.C.V. Mallik & S. Chatterjee University Press, Hyderabad, 2012, pp. 461, Rs. 895.00 One of the curious paradoxes of the sociology of science concerns the flowering of world class science in India in the early decades of the…
Research Papers Published in July 2014
Full text of the research papers published in July 2014 can be accessed from Indian Institute of Astrophysics Repository Hegde, M., Hiremath, K. M., Doddamani, V. H., 2014, Coronal hole oscillations inferred from the SDO/AIA data, Advances in Space Research, 54, pp. 272 Krishna Prasad, S., Banerjee, D., Doorsselaere, T. V., 2014, Frequency-Dependent Damping…
Plan for open access to science research
Plan for open access to science research: by Renuka Phadnis Ever felt frustrated while reading a science research journal online, only to see the message “to continue reading, subscribe now”? That may soon change The Department of Science and Technology and the Department of Biotechnology (DBt) under the Ministry of Science and Technology have…