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Malariotherapy
Volume 123, Issue 11 | 10 December, 2022
Discovering the discoverer: the case of ionic liquids
Volume 123, Issue 10 | 25 November, 2022
A device used and some methods practised by Tamil mariners in the mid-19th century: notes of Harry Congreve, Madras Infantry, 1850
Volume 123, Issue 01 | 10 July, 2022
Indian chemistry’s Camelot: looking back at the glory days of IIT Kanpur
Volume 121, Issue 10 | 25 November, 2021
Bijoor Sanjiva Rao, morellin and early natural products chemistry in India
Volume 121, Issue 08 | 25 October, 2021
Asima Chatterjee, one of the brightest stars in the galaxy of organic chemistry
Volume 121, Issue 07 | 10 October, 2021
History of discovery of the fastest growing angiosperm, Wolffia microscopica (Griff.) Kurz entwined with British India
Volume 121, Issue 05 | 10 September, 2021
Gopinath Kartha and the birth of chemical crystallography in India
Volume 121, Issue 03 | 10 August, 2021
Yelseti Ramachandra Rao’s contribution to entomology and his pioneering work on the management of invasive plant species in India
Volume 121, Issue 01 | 10 July, 2021
Prof. Govind Swarup’s connection to the archetypal radio galaxy Cygnus A
Volume 120, Issue 09 | 10 May, 2021
Conjunction of planets – Historical Records of India
Volume 120, Issue 08 | 25 April, 2021
The multifaceted Dr John Berry White and the Berry White Medical School in Dibrugarh, Assam, India
Volume 120, Issue 07 | 10 April, 2021
Hidden treasures of the past
Volume 120, Issue 06 | 25 March, 2021
Water-distribution efforts in Madras: from sailor George Baker (1750s) to engineers John Jones, Hormusji Nowroji and James Madeley (1870s–1920s)
Volume 120, Issue 03 | 10 February, 2021
The Indian contribution to the physics of black holes: 2020 Nobel Prize
Volume 119, Issue 12 | 25 December, 2020
The Vadavãr Railroad in Tanjãvûr district, Madras Presidency, reported in 1836
Volume 119, Issue 07 | 10 October, 2020
Clinical Manual for India – an internally published handbook for medical students of the Madras Medical College in the late 19th century
Volume 119, Issue 01 | 10 July, 2020
On the 200th anniversary of the Madras Eye Infirmary, the first ophthalmic hospital in Asia
Volume 118, Issue 08 | 25 April, 2020
Historical methodology and expert opinion in the Aryan Debate
Volume 118, Issue 04 | 25 February, 2020
Bhagawati Charan Guha and discovery of the molecular magnet
Volume 118, Issue 02 | 25 January, 2020
The spark that fired the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India: the triangulation survey made between Fort St. George (13°08′N) and Mangalore (12°91′N) by William Lambton in the early 1800s
Volume 118, Issue 01 | 10 January, 2020
Oliver Howe Lowry – the ‘incorrigible addict’ of micro-analytical methods
Volume 117, Issue 12 | 25 December, 2019
Sister Nivedita’s role in J. C. Bose’s publications: a historical perspective
Volume 117, Issue 11 | 10 December, 2019
Observational records of stars in Indian astronomical texts – IV (Cancer and Leo)
Volume 117, Issue 10 | 25 November, 2019
Observational records of stars in Indian texts – III (Gemini)
Volume 117, Issue 08 | 25 October, 2019
Women doctors and women’s hospitals in Madras with notes on the related influencing developments in India in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
Volume 117, Issue 07 | 10 October, 2019
Fifty years of oral rehydration therapy: forgotten contributions from the Indian subcontinent
Volume 117, Issue 05 | 10 September, 2018
Satyendra Nath Bose and his contributions to chemistry
Volume 117, Issue 04 | 25 August, 2019
Sir Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan (1898–1961): the scientist and the man
Volume 117, Issue 03 | 10 August, 2019
Inception of Entomological Society of India and inaugural issue of the Indian Journal of Entomology
Volume 117, Issue 02 | 25 July, 2019
Photography: photofilm to digital sensor
Volume 117, Issue 01 | 10 July, 2019
Records of supernovae from India
Volume 116, Issue 08 | 25 April, 2019
James Annesley of Madras Medical Service (1800-1838) on cholera in Madras Presidency in 1825
Volume 116, Issue 06 | 25 March, 2019
Plant lists from ‘olde’ Madras (1698–1703)
Volume 115, Issue 12 | 25 December, 2018
B. G. L. Swamy (1918–1980): a one-man institution
Volume 115, Issue 11 | 10 December, 2018
Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science: the first thirty years (1971–2000)
Volume 115, Issue 10 | 25 November, 2018
E. C. G. Sudarshan and the quantum mechanics of charged-particle beam optics
Volume 115, Issue 09 | 10 November, 2018
‘Constitution of India’: Preservation of original
Volume 115, Issue 04 | 25 August, 2018
Observational records of stars in Indian astronomical texts
Volume 115, Issue 03 | 10 August, 2018
George Boole’s Laws of Thought and Indian logic
Volume 114, Issue 12 | 25 June, 2018
Records of sightings of comets from the literature
Volume 114, Issue 11 | 10 June, 2018
Wool-pile carpets in colonial Madras and the lost Saidapet woolly-sheep breed in Madras of the 1870s
Volume 114, Issue 10 | 25 May, 2018
Assessing scientific evidences in the Aryan debate
Volume 114, Issue 09 | 10 May, 2018
Medical stores in 1865, pharmacist training and pharmacopoeias in India until the launch of the India Pharmacopoeia in 1955
Volume 114, Issue 06 | 25 March, 2019
Tesla, wireless energy transmission and Vivekananda
Volume 113, Issue 11 | 10 December, 2017
Zinc, steel and rocketry: Western mainstreaming of empirical Indian technologies
Volume 113, Issue 09 | 10 November, 2017
Early users of monsoon winds for navigation
Volume 113, Issue 08 | 25 October, 2017
Keshab Chandra Sarma (1898–1973) – an eminent mycologist in tea of North East India
Volume 113, Issue 06 | 25 September, 2017
Large-scale iron and steel production in the Coromandel: the earliest and longest survived Porto Novo Iron Works (1830–1859)
Volume 113, Issue 05 | 10 September, 2017
A historical perspective of Ganot’s book in Maharashtra
Volume 113, Issue 03 | 10 August, 2017
Records of sighting of Halley’s Comet in the 1531 apparition and an eclipse in Guru Nanak’s references
Volume 113, Issue 01 | 10 July, 2017
Acknowledgements in Francis Crick’s papers appearing in science journals
Volume 112, Issue 08 | 25 April, 2017
C. V. Raman nominated G. N. Ramachandran for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Volume 111, Issue 10 | 25 November, 2016
Measurement of coordinates of Nakśatras in Indian astronomy
Volume 111, Issue 09 | 10 November, 2016
S. Chandrasekhar equals with Newton, Laplace, Gauss and Einstein – C. V. Raman’s opinion and the Physics Nobel Prize nomination
Volume 111, Issue 08 | 25 October, 2016
Role of teak and other hardwoods in shipbuilding as evidenced from literature and shipwrecks
Volume 111, Issue 07 | 10 October, 2016
The Grecian Doric-column lighthouse of Madras (1840) and its builder John Thomas Smith, Madras Army Corps of Engineers
Volume 111, Issue 06 | 25 September, 2016
Meghnad Saha and his contributions
Volume 111, Issue 01 | 10 July, 2016
Ghulām Husain Jaunpūrī, an early 19th century modern Indian astronomer
Volume 110, Issue 12 | 25 June, 2016
On the villainous saltpetre in pre-independent India
Volume 110, Issue 05 | 10 March, 2016
Debendra Mohan Bose (1885–1975) – an eminent physicist of India
Volume 109, Issue 12 | 25 December, 2015
Vedic rituals and the Aryan invasion theory
Volume 109, Issue 10 | 25 November, 2015
Cotton heritage of India and improvements trialled on cotton germplasm in the Madras Presidency during the 19th Century
Volume 109, Issue 07 | 10 October, 2015
Primatological studies by medicine Nobel laureates
Volume 109, Issue 04 | 25 August, 2015
J. B. S. Haldane, an Indian scientist of British origin
Volume 109, Issue 03 | 10 August, 2015
Khalkattapatna port: the lost archaeological heritage of Odisha, east coast of India
Volume 109, Issue 02 | 25 July, 2015
Visionary chemist – Dr Yellapragada Subba Row
Volume 109, Issue 01 | 10 July, 2015
Was the bright comet of 1742 discovered from India?
Volume 108, Issue 12 | 25 June, 2015
S. R. Ranganathan: library and documentation scientist
Volume 108, Issue 11 | 10 June, 2015
Public-health management in the Madras Presidency in early 20th century: the King Institute of Preventive Medicine, Madras and its pioneering surgeons
Volume 108, Issue 10 | 25 May, 2015
Humour on Einstein as expressed in limericks
Volume 108, Issue 06 | 25 March, 2015
The atomic hypothesis
Volume 108, Issue 05 | 10 March, 2015
The Bangalore–Birkbeck Phosphazene Project 1971–1981 – a retrospect on this and other international and interdisciplinary scientific research collaborations
Volume 107, Issue 11 | 10 December, 2014
Records of Ketu in stone inscriptions
Volume 107, Issue 10 | 25 November, 2014
Georges Guerrard-Samuel Perrottet, a forgotten Swiss−French plant collector, experimental botanist and biologist in India
Volume 107, Issue 09 | 10 November, 2014
The mathematician in Asutosh Mukhopadhyay
Volume 107, Issue 08 | 25 October, 2014
Choosing Raman’s successor for Raman Research Institute
Volume 107, Issue 07 | 10 October, 2014
A western science-based Materia Medica by Whitelaw Ainslie of the Madras-Medical Establishment published in 1810
Volume 107, Issue 05 | 10 September, 2014
Discovering life on omics plane: the genius of Frederick Sanger
Volume 107, Issue 04 | 25 August, 2014
Silicon technology in India: a tribute to A. R. Vasudeva Murthy
Volume 107, Issue 01 | 10 July, 2014
The arsenic and mercury-containing Tanjore pills used in treating snake bites in the 18th century Madras Presidency
Volume 106, Issue 12 | 25 June, 2014
Edward Green Balfour (1813–1889) and his contributions to Indian agriculture and forestry
Volume 106, Issue 11 | 10 June, 2014
The knight of sugar industry: T. S. Venkatraman (1884–1963)
Volume 106, Issue 08 | 25 April, 2014
Subhuman primates in Shakespeare’s oeuvre
Volume 106, Issue 07 | 10 April, 2014
Discovery of Kerria lacca (Insecta: Hemiptera: Coccoidea), the lac insect, in India in the late 18th century
Volume 106, Issue 06 | 25 March, 2014
Brajendra Nath Seal – a sesquicentenary birth anniversary tribute
Volume 106, Issue 05 | 10 March, 2014
Bhavnagar Telescope: the most widely travelled telescope in the country
Volume 106, Issue 04 | 25 February, 2014
Charles Michie Smith – founder of the Kodaikanal (Solar Physics) Observatory and beginnings of physical astronomy in India
Volume 106, Issue 03 | 10 February, 2014
Swami Vivekananda’s interaction with scientists and his appreciation of them: celebrating his 150th birth anniversary
Volume 106, Issue 02 | 25 January, 2014
A history of Karl Landsteiner’s stature in Nobel Prizes
Volume 105, Issue 12 | 25 December, 2013
Karl Landsteiner (1868–1943) – a 20th century scientist as the ‘Einstein of biomedical science’
Volume 105, Issue 12 | 25 December, 2013
Cartoon humour on Nobel Prizes
Volume 105, Issue 08 | 25 October, 2013
Centenary of ‘Researches on Irritability of Plants’ by Jagadis Chandra Bose
Volume 105, Issue 07 | 10 October, 2013
On the ‘Astronomical Notes’ in Current Science about the bright comet of 1941
Volume 105, Issue 06 | 25 September, 2013
Remembering T. V. Ramakrishna, the doyen of Indian entomologists
Volume 105, Issue 05 | 10 September, 2013
Frank Milburn Howlett (1877–1920): discoverer of the Pied Piper’s lure for the fruit flies (Tephritidae: Diptera)
Volume 105, Issue 02 | 25 July, 2013
Comet Bappu–Bok–Newkirk – the only comet with an Indian’s name to it
Volume 105, Issue 01 | 10 July, 2013
Surgeon Senjee Pulney Andy’s trials in treating smallpox using leaves of Azadirachta indica in southern India in the 1860s
Volume 104, Issue 12 | 25 June, 2013
The early Indian Academy of Sciences: The Bhera connection
Volume 104, Issue 11 | 10 June, 2013
Citation patterns of the four seminal DNA double-helix model papers by Watson and Crick in 1953–54
Volume 104, Issue 09 | 10 May, 2013
Tribhuvandas Kalyandas Gajjar (1863–1920): the pioneering industrial chemist of Western India
Volume 104, Issue 08 | 25 April, 2013
T. S. Sadasivan – a centennial remembrance
Volume 104, Issue 07 | 10 April, 2013
The Madras Leper Hospital and leprosy management in 19th century India
Volume 103, Issue 11 | 10 December, 2012
Dravidian is the language of the Indus writing
Volume 103, Issue 10 | 25 November, 2012
Self-deprecating humour in James Watson’s The Double Helix (1968) memoir
Volume 103, Issue 08 | 25 October, 2012
Benevolence of American Henry Phipps and the birth of Pasteur Institute of Southern India, Coonoor, The Nilgiris
Volume 103, Issue 05 | 10 September, 2012
Why Wright brothers failed to receive Nobel Prize recognition?
Volume 103, Issue 04 | 25 August, 2012
The eminence of Linnaeus is imperfect without Uppsala Hammarby!
Volume 103, Issue 03 | 10 August, 2012
There is no scientific basis for the Aryan Invasion Theory
Volume 103, Issue 02 | 25 July, 2012
A search for records of planetary transits in India prior to the colonial period
Volume 103, Issue 01 | 10 July, 2012
Malaria management in the 18th and 19th century India: role played by Madras Presidency
Volume 102, Issue 12 | 25 June, 2012
A touch of history and a peep into the future of the lipid-quinone known as coenzyme Q and ubiquinone
Volume 102, Issue 10 | 25 May, 2012
Srinivasa Ramanujan: an interpreter of dreams
Volume 102, Issue 09 | 10 May, 2012
Using satellite imagery and historical maps to study the original contours of Lalbagh Botanical Garden
Volume 102, Issue 03 | 10 February, 2012
Annotations on India and Indians in The Descent of Man by Darwin
Volume 101, Issue 11 | 10 December, 2011
The first dissection controversy: introduction to anatomical education in Bengal and British India
Volume 101, Issue 09 | 10 November, 2011
Madan Mohan Malaviya and Banaras Hindu University
Volume 101, Issue 08 | 25 October, 2011
Photography and photomicrography in 19th century Madras
Volume 101, Issue 06 | 25 September, 2011
Joshua Lederberg (1925–2008) and the pink–orange fungus Neurospora
Volume 101, Issue 05 | 10 September, 2011
Printed scientific reprint: demise of a cherub
Volume 100, Issue 11 | 10 June, 2011
Early pioneers of telescopic astronomy in India: G. V. Juggarow and his observatory
Volume 100, Issue 10 | 25 May, 2011
Homi Bhabha – an appreciation and a hope
Volume 100, Issue 09 | 10 May, 2011
A relook at the observatory at Varanasi
Volume 100, Issue 08 | 25 April, 2011
Economic biology and James Anderson in eighteenth century Coromandel
Volume 100, Issue 07 | 10 April, 2011
What was current science for Current Science 50 years ago?
Volume 100, Issue 05 | 10 March, 2011
How the electric telegraph shaped electromagnetism
Volume 100, Issue 04 | 25 February, 2011
The architects of Current Science
Volume 100, Issue 03 | 10 February, 2011
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970): calibrating the scientific productivity of a polymath
Volume 100, Issue 02 | 25 January, 2011
Scientific research papers by native Bengali authors during the nineteenth century
Volume 99, Issue 12 | 25 December, 2010
Origin of the name 'patchouli' and its history
Volume 99, Issue 09 | 10 November, 2010
C. V. Raman's research in astronomy
Volume 99, Issue 08 | 25 October, 2010
The Wealth of India - a CSIR's encyclopaedia of information resource on economic plants, animals and minerals
Volume 99, Issue 07 | 10 October, 2010
Reason, science and religion: gleanings from the Colonial Past
Volume 99, Issue 05 | 10 September, 2010
Medical journalism in 19th century Madras
Volume 99, Issue 01 | 10 July, 2010
Joseph G. Medlicott and the line of the Narmada and Son valleys
Volume 98, Issue 08 | 25 April, 2010
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Volume 98, Issue 07 | 10 April, 2010
Swami Vivekananda's use of science to communicate spirituality
Volume 98, Issue 05 | 10 March, 2010
An 'agent of the spirit of history': an appreciation of P. K. Kelkar
Volume 98, Issue 04 | 25 February, 2010
Suri Bhagavantam - a biographical note
Volume 98, Issue 03 | 10 February, 2010
Madras Journal of Literature and Science, the second oldest Indian professional science journal
Volume 98, Issue 02 | 25 January, 2010
The most influential speech ever presented in the history of mathematics
Volume 97, Issue 10 | 25 November, 2009
Darwin as a botanist
Volume 97, Issue 06 | 25 September, 2009
Primate species in Darwin's major books on evolution
Volume 97, Issue 05 | 10 September, 2009
Homi J. Bhabha and Niels Bohr
Volume 97, Issue 04 | 25 August, 2009
Monsoon rainfall cycles as depicted in ancient Sanskrit texts
Volume 97, Issue 03 | 10 August, 2009
The other Bose: an account of missed opportunities in the history of neurobiology in India
Volume 97, Issue 02 | 25 July, 2009
An Avadhi language account of an earthquake in medieval North India circa ad 1500
Volume 96, Issue 12 | 25 June, 2009
Homi Jehangir Bhabha
Volume 96, Issue 11 | 10 June, 2009
The Indian Institute of Science: Reflections on a Century
Volume 96, Issue 10 | 25 May, 2009
Chintamani Ragoonathachari and contemporary Indian astronomy
Volume 96, Issue 09 | 10 May, 2009
Celebrating the book and the author: Charles Darwin and his times
Volume 96, Issue 06 | 25 March, 2009
Homi Jehangir Bhabha and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Volume 96, Issue 05 | 10 March, 2009
J. C. Bose and the German scientific community: scientific and political context
Volume 96, Issue 03 | 10 February, 2009
Radiocarbon dates of the medieval period stone anchors from Dabhol, west coast of India
Volume 96, Issue 02 | 25 January, 2009
Astronomical significance of the Gavi Gangadhareshwara temple in Bangalore
Volume 95, Issue 11 | 10 December, 2008
Max Planck and the genesis of the energy quanta in historical context
Volume 95, Issue 06 | 25 September, 2008
Remembering John Bardeen in his centenary year: The physicist who shared two Nobel Prizes
Volume 95, Issue 03 | 10 August, 2008
Astronomical alignment of iron pillar and passageway at Udayagiri and date of Sanakanika inscription
Volume 95, Issue 01 | 10 July, 2008
Einstein, 'parachor' and molecular volume: Some history and a suggestion
Volume 94, Issue 12 | 25 June, 2008
Science as a symbol of new nationhood: India and the International Geophysical Year 1957-58
Volume 94, Issue 06 | 25 March, 2008
Training science and technology manpower: Fifty years of DAE training school
Volume 94, Issue 04 | 25 February, 2008
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy: From geology to philosophia perennis
Volume 94, Issue 03 | 10 February, 2008
Āryabhata on the heliacal rise and set of canopus
Volume 94, Issue 01 | 10 January, 2008
Alleged mistake of Āryabhata - Light onto his place of observation
Volume 93, Issue 12 | 25 December, 2007
Type-II superconductors, vortex lattice and role of an Indian scientist
Volume 93, Issue 09 | 10 November, 2007
Critical evidence to fix the native place of Āryabhata-I
Volume 93, Issue 08 | 25 October, 2007
Transposon biology - A historical perspective
Volume 93, Issue 07 | 10 October, 2007
One hundred and fifty years of a dreamer and fifty years of realization of his dream: Konstantin Eduardovitch Tsiolkovsky and the Sputnik 1
Volume 93, Issue 06 | 25 September, 2007
Eclipse observed by Āryabhat)a in Kerala
Volume 93, Issue 03 | 10 August, 2007
A view of the history of biochemistry in India
Volume 92, Issue 08 | 25 April, 2007
The zodiacal pillars of Sringeri
Volume 92, Issue 06 | 25 March, 2007
Fifty years of the metric system in India and its adoption in our daily life
Volume 92, Issue 03 | 10 February, 2007
Current Science: Some early history
Volume 92, Issue 01 | 10 January, 2007
Shubnikov: A case of non-recognition in superconductivity research
Volume 91, Issue 11 | 10 December, 2006
A few Nobel Prizes in physics: About how and how much physicists have contributed in technology
Volume 91, Issue 05 | 10 September, 2006
Democratizing scientific knowledge through building scientific institutions in nineteenth century India: the sociology of science perspective
Volume 90, Issue 08 | 25 April, 2006
Sixty years of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research 1945-2005: The role of young men in the creation and development of this institute
Volume 90, Issue 07 | 10 April, 2006
Monsoon wind and maritime trade: a case study of historical evidence from Orissa, India
Volume 90, Issue 06 | 25 March, 2006
John Herschel's astronomical observations from Bangalore
Volume 90, Issue 02 | 25 January, 2006
Folklore and Astronomy: Agastya a sage and a star
Volume 89, Issue 12 | 25 December, 2005
The first image of the atoms and role of an Indian scientist
Volume 89, Issue 07 | 10 October, 2005
Samanta's planet placing
Volume 89, Issue 01 | 10 July, 2005
Einstein and the Indian minds: Tagore, Gandhi and Nehru
Volume 88, Issue 07 | 10 April, 2005
The forgotten Indian pioneers of fingerprint science
Volume 88, Issue 01 | 10 January, 2005
Remembering my guru P. Maheshwari
Volume 87, Issue 12 | 25 December, 2004
Remembering Panchanan Maheshwari - An eminent botanist of the twentieth century
Volume 87, Issue 12 | 25 December, 2004
Lt. Col. M. L. Ferrar - The 'butterfly mad' Chief Commissioner of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Volume 87, Issue 10 | 25 November, 2004
Four hundredth anniversary of Kepler's supernova
Volume 87, Issue 07 | 10 October, 2004
Bires Chandra Guha - Father of modern biochemistry in India
Volume 87, Issue 06 | 25 September, 2004
Description of rainfall variability in Brhat-samhita of Varāha-mihira
Volume 87, Issue 04 | 25 August, 2004
Robins--Magnus effect: A continuing saga
Volume 86, Issue 07 | 10 April, 2004
Artless innocents and ivory-tower sophisticates: Some personalities on the Indian mathematical scene
Volume 85, Issue 04 | 25 August, 2003
On the Pythagorean triples in the Sulvasutras
Volume 85, Issue 02 | 25 July, 2003
The story of insulin crystallography
Volume 83, Issue 12 | 25 December, 2002
Cyril Wace Nicholas (1898-1961): Gentleman, scholar and the first warden of the Wild Life Department, Sri Lanka
Volume 83, Issue 11 | 10 December, 2002
The story of C. V. Raman's resignation from the Fellowship of the Royal Society of London
Volume 83, Issue 09 | 10 November, 2002
Arnold Sommerfeld - The supporter of Indian physics in Germany
Volume 81, Issue 11 | 10 December, 2001
Search for ancient Indian records of the sighting of supernovae
Volume 81, Issue 06 | 25 September, 2001
Why did Daulat Singh Kothari not become a Fellow of the Royal Society?
Volume 81, Issue 05 | 10 September, 2001
Twenty-five years of Mahabaleshwar seminars in modern biology
Volume 79, Issue 12 | 25 December, 2000
The quantum, its discovery and the continuing quest
Volume 79, Issue 11 | 10 December, 2000
K. S. Krishnan and the Kodaikanal Observatory
Volume 79, Issue 05 | 10 September, 2000
Sir Asutosh Mookerjee - Educationist, leader and Institution-builder
Volume 78, Issue 12 | 25 June, 2000
Professor S. P. Ray-Chaudhuri (1907-1994): An architectural scientist
Volume 78, Issue 11 | 10 June, 2000
A conversation with Satyendranath Bose about five decades ago - Some recollections
Volume 78, Issue 05 | 10 March, 2000
Pieter Zeeman Chair in Amsterdam and C. V. Raman's Dutch connections
Volume 78, Issue 03 | 10 February, 2000
The November (J/Y) revolution: Twenty-five years later
Volume 77, Issue 09 | 10 November, 1999
The amoral scientist - Notes on the life of Fritz Haber
Volume 77, Issue 08 | 25 October, 1999
Memories of India
Volume 77, Issue 07 | 10 October, 1999
Earthquakes in ancient India
Volume 77, Issue 06 | 25 September, 1999
Re-discovering Nain Singh
Volume 77, Issue 05 | 10 September, 1999
What ails Indian Science
Volume 77, Issue 02 | 25 July, 1999
Bioelectricity and the rhythms of sensitive plants - The biophysical research of Jagadis Chandra Bose
Volume 77, Issue 01 | 10 July, 1999
Magnetic properties of solids: Krishnan's contribution
Volume 76, Issue 12 | 25 June, 1999
Science and domination: India before and after Independence
Volume 76, Issue 04 | 25 February, 1999
Early days of Raman Research Institute - Some personal reflections
Volume 76, Issue 02 | 25 January, 1999
'Soviet rockets must conquer space' - Contributions of S. P. Korolev to the soviet space research
Volume 76, Issue 01 | 10 January, 1999
M. S. Krishnan: Geologist par excellence
Volume 75, Issue 10 | 25 November, 1998
The spirit of a giant
Volume 75, Issue 10 | 25 November, 1998
Sir. C. V. Raman and the story of the Nobel prize
Volume 75, Issue 09 | 10 November, 1998
Professor Bawa Kartar Singh: A pioneer in stereochemistry in India
Volume 75, Issue 07 | 10 October, 1998
Srinivasa Ramanujan: A different perception of his life and times
Volume 75, Issue 03 | 10 August, 1998
Seventy years ago - The discovery of the Raman effect as seen from German physicists
Volume 74, Issue 12 | 25 June, 1998
Professor Puran Singh (1881-1931): Founder of chemistry of forest products in India
Volume 74, Issue 11 | 10 June, 1998
Harish - Chandra and his mathematical legacy: Some personal recollections
Volume 74, Issue 10 | 25 May, 1998
Jaroslav Heyrovsky, the inventor of polarography
Volume 74, Issue 06 | 25 March, 1998
Indian Science Congress
Volume 74, Issue 05 | 10 March, 1998
A change of wavelengthin light scattering (nature,1928, 121, 619)
Volume 74, Issue 04 | 25 February, 1998
A new radiation (Indian J. Phys., 1928, 2, 387-398)
Volume 74, Issue 04 | 25 February, 1998
A new type of secondary radiation (nature,1928, 121, 501-502)
Volume 74, Issue 04 | 25 February, 1998
Draft of the letter from Max Born to Sir. C. V. Raman and the story of the unsuccessful attempt of Raman to get Born and other refugee-scientist from Germany to India
Volume 74, Issue 04 | 25 February, 1998
Sir. C. V. Raman
Volume 74, Issue 04 | 25 February, 1998
Planck's radiation thermodynamics and its consequence: Laue's thermodynamics of interference
Volume 73, Issue 10 | 25 November, 1997
Rutherford and Bohr
Volume 73, Issue 08 | 25 October, 1997
Archaeoastronomy and literature
Volume 73, Issue 07 | 10 October, 1997
Subrahmanyam Chandrasekhar
Volume 73, Issue 05 | 10 September, 1997
Architect of India's first test tube baby: Dr Subhas Mukerji (16 January 1931 to 19 July 1981)
Volume 72, Issue 07 | 10 April, 1997
Pramatha Nath Bose (1855-1934)
Volume 72, Issue 03 | 10 February, 1997
The cakravala method
Volume 71, Issue 06 | 25 September, 1997
Some earthquakes of Kashmir from historical sources
Volume 71, Issue 04 | 25 August, 1996
How the plague bacillus and its transmission through fleas were discovered: Reminiscences from mu years at the Pasteur Institute in Paris
Volume 70, Issue 12 | 25 June, 1996
Lakshmeshwar Rama Rao: A centenary tribute
Volume 70, Issue 08 | 25 April, 1996
100 years of radio: 1895-1995-Some reflections
Volume 70, Issue 04 | 25 February, 1996
On polarization of electric rays by double-refracting crystals
Volume 70, Issue 02 | 25 January, 1996
The centennial of the discovery of millimetre waves by Jagadis Chandra Bose
Volume 70, Issue 02 | 25 January, 1996
The rotation of plane of polarization of electric waves by a twisted structure
Volume 70, Issue 02 | 25 January, 1996
S. Chandrasekhar and Sir. C. V. Raman--Some letters
Volume 70, Issue 01 | 10 January, 1996
Samanta Chandra Sekhar: Life and work
Volume 69, Issue 08 | 25 October, 1995
On Ramanujan's bust
Volume 69, Issue 06 | 25 September, 1995
A probe into the Calcutta earthquake of 1737
Volume 69, Issue 05 | 10 September, 1995
Eugene paul wigner--A tribute
Volume 69, Issue 04 | 25 August, 1995
Scientific tradition and other traditions
Volume 69, Issue 02 | 25 July, 1995
Professor S. N. Bose's contribution to quantum statistics-A critical review
Volume 69, Issue 01 | 10 July, 1995
Professor S. K. Mitra--His pioneering work on radio science
Volume 68, Issue 11 | 10 May, 1995
Sir. J. C. Ghosh-A pioneer in photochemical photobiological researches
Volume 68, Issue 10 | 25 May, 1995
From Eduard Suess to Emile Argand: Reflections on Tethys and India-Asia tectonics
Volume 68, Issue 08 | 25 April, 1995
The dilemma of a fame-hunter
Volume 68, Issue 01 | 10 January, 1995
The Great Bengal cyclone of 1737--An enquiry into the legend
Volume 68, Issue 01 | 10 January, 1995
From the annals of plague
Volume 67, Issue 08 | 25 October, 1994
Down memory lane
Volume 67, Issue 07 | 10 October, 1994
Causes of the failure of Rayleigh-Jeans radiation formula as speculated by some physicists and the ultimate answer from Einstein
Volume 67, Issue 02 | 25 July, 1994
Bose statistics - Before and after
Volume 66, Issue 12 | 25 June, 1994
Bose statistics and the stars
Volume 66, Issue 12 | 25 June, 1994
Correlation between photons in two coherent beams of light
Volume 66, Issue 12 | 25 June, 1994
Letter to the Editor
Volume 66, Issue 12 | 25 June, 1994
Planck's law and the light quantum hypothesis
Volume 66, Issue 12 | 25 June, 1994
Shipbuilding at Bombay
Volume 66, Issue 12 | 25 June, 1994
Modification of the earlier Indian planetary theory by the Kerala astronomers (c. 1500 AD) and the implied heliocentric picture of planetary motion
Volume 66, Issue 10 | 25 May, 1994
My first sixty years - The spread of biology down to the level of the gene
Volume 66, Issue 10 | 25 May, 1994
N. I. Vavilov, Martyr to genetic truth
Volume 66, Issue 10 | 25 May, 1994
Role of entropy in Einstein's thoughts on constitution of radiation
Volume 66, Issue 09 | 10 May, 1994
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