Introduction

 

[In these Notes, I have used initials only for the names of the scientists: M.L. Sircar for Mahendralal Sircar; J.C. Bose for Jagadis Chandra Bose; P.C. Ray for Prafulla Chandra Ray; M.N. Saha for Meghnad Saha, C.V. Raman for Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, H.J. Bhabha for Homi Jehangir Bhabha; P.C. Mahalanobis for Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis. Their full names are given in my Introduction.]

[In the section titled ‘About the Volume’ in the Introduction, I have not given any biographical notes for the personalities referred to while I summarized the chapters. Those will be found in each individual chapter.]

1. Cited in The Scientist in Society, Essays and Addresses by P.C. Ray, C.V. Raman, P.C. Mahalanobis, M.N. Saha, S.N. Bose, ...

Get Science and Modern India now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.