"The Milner Foundation announced on Tuesday that the British cosmologist Stephen Hawking and a team of seven scientists at CERN, the European research center for particle physics, had won a pair of $3-million prizes...."
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Dear Colleagues, The latest issue of Current Science (Vol.108, No.9, pp.1731, 10th May.2015) contains the following article in “Living Legends in Indian Science” titled “B. V. Sreekantan: A versatile and humane scientist by P.C. Agrawal” which may be of interest to many of us. Read More: http://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/108/09/1731.pdf With Regards, Librarian
Prof. Vinod Krishan (formerly Senior Professor, IIA) has written a book on Plasmas: The First State of Matter and Cambridge University Press has published the book recently. Read more
In continuation to our blog news titled “Why students need the right to copy” posted on April 29, 2013. In November 2012, The Association of Students for Equitable Access to Knowledge” (ASEAK) was formed to represent students side and they filed an application for removing the injunction order against the Rameshwari Photocopying services to…
Professor Annapurni Subramaniam, the Director of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics in Bengaluru, has been chosen for the prestigious Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar–Vigyan Shri Award for 2024. She is among 13 recipients of the Vigyan Shri Award this year. The award, which includes a medallion and a citation, will be presented on August 23 at the…
Dear Colleagues, The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 was awarded jointly to François Englert and Peter W. Higgs “for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and…
This is an excellent editorial by Peter Golitz in the current issue of ACIE, which is freely available at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201206849/pdf
