CV Raman

The Problem With India’s National Science Day

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The Shrinking Space for Scientific Temper in India Is Worrying

Why is a Nobel Prize for Men Still Universally Relevant for the Sciences?

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The Scientist as Rebel in the Indian Cultural Milieu

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Five Reflections on National Science Day

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A New Science Archives Preserves the Ways of Seeing Science’s People

An image in Claude Cohen-Tannoudji's 1994 paper, commemorating the contributions of S. Pancharatnam. Credit: Current Science

Catching a Glimpse of S. Pancharatnam in History’s Precisest Chemical Reaction