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	Publisher: Gandhi Centre Of Science & Human Values, Bangalore
	Author Palahalli Vishwanath
	Language: English
	Pages: 297
	Cover: PAPERBACK
	8.5x5.5 inch
	Weight 350 gm
	Edition: 2019
	ISBN: 9788189220631
	HCE236

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About the Book This book describes the scientific contributions of nonagenarian scientist Professor B.V.Sreekantan to frontier fields of physics and astrophysics, as well as to nurturing scientific institutions. The book starts with the description of Sreekantan's ancestral town of Nanjanagudu and takes us through the places he grew up, studied and began his research career. We learn about the early years of TIFR and its founder Homi Bhabha who was also supervisor and mentor of Sreekantan, The book conveys the excitement of starting research in newly independent India with very few resources and working in underground laboratories and on mountain tops. We see how he managed institutions, set up scientific field stations and encouraged his colleagues to expand their activities. The pioneering areas are described along with a brief introduction to physics and experiments for a broader readership. The biography is up to date including his activities at NIAS, following retirement from TIFR. and contributions to the study of human consciousness. Human elements weave through the fabric of the book, and words of many contemporary and younger scientists on their interaction with Sreekantan also find place near the end. Most valuable are the personal memories narrated by Prof. Sreekantan himself. The lucid style makes this a highly readable book for young students, historians of science and academic scientists apart from laymen interested in science.

About the Author Palahalli Vishwanath obtained his PhD in University of Michigan and was a Professor of Physies at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai and later a Visiting Professor at Indian Institute of He has Astrophysics (HA), Bangalore. worked in the fields of Cosmic Ray Physics, High Energy Physics and High Energy Astrophysics. In USA, he was associated with the universities of Maryland and California and has worked at Fermilab, Los Alamos National Lab, Goddard Space Flight Center and at mountain altitude observatories of Echo Lake, Colorado and Sunspot, New Mexico. In India he has worked on experiments in KGF, Ooty, Pachmarhi and Hanle. In the last fifteen years he has been active in popularization of science and has published popular articles in both English and Kannada and several popular science books in Kannada. He interacts with students in schools and colleges on science and also with the community at large on societal concerns like the scientific temperament.

Preface I like to read biographies. They give me a close view of the lives of other people, some who became famous, and some others who in their quiet way made their own contributions to humanity. They show the extraordinary diversity of the human spirit. Our own lives may be quite different from those we are following closely in the narrative. Yet the way the various phases of their lives unfolded provides us with an understanding of the possible outcomes of our own initiatives and actions. It is somewhat like a sneak preview of what lies ahead when we turn the next corner in our own lives. Reading biographies gives me an opportunity to observe how another person faces serious challenges in the real world and how he overcomes them, and grasps the opportunities that bring to him great success, keeps a balanced attitude in sorrow and joy, and in short how he gets through the crucible of life and emerges victorious. It could be the biography of a man like Chandrasekhar, or a woman Marie Curie reading it is always an edifying experience. Reading the biography of Sreekantan is no different. Notwithstanding the remarkable contributions Professor B.V.Sreekantan has made towards building institutions, and to Indian heritage, culture and philosophy, quintessentially he is a physicist. He made pioneering contributions to the fields of cosmic rays, neutrino physics, and X-ray astronomy. Sreekantan's scientific activities have been forerunners or have run parallel to three Nobel Prize winning efforts. In the following pages you will read how he was persuaded to become an experimental physicist by Professor Homi.J. Bhabha, the scientific and technological architect of modern India.

Acknowledgements When Prof. S.Balachandra Rao of Gandhi Centre, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan asked me whether I could write a biography of Prof. B.V.Sreekantan, I mulled over it for quite some time before deciding to really take it up. I realized that this had to be a record of the pioneering activities of a prominent group of a premiere research institution in the country. While doing this the book should concentrate on the difficulties as well as the excitements of a pioneer and his group in a newly independent nation with very few resources. And it should recount how some of those experiments rivaled international efforts also. I asked myself as to who would be the readers of such a book. While there would probably be some historians and some eclectic academics, I wanted that the excitement of doing experimental science should be conveyed at least partially to college and university students. Now it is completed, I am not sure whether the book as it turned out to be has done justice to all these aspirations I had when I started out.

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