Renowned nuclear physicist Bikash Sinha died in Kolkata on Friday morning. Nuclear physicist Bikash Sinha A recipient of Padma Shri in 2001 and Padma Bhusan in 2010, he was the former director of the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics and Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre. Describing him as a talented nuclear physicist and illustrious son of Bengal, she wrote, “An illustrious …
Prof. Guruswamy Rajasekaran, a doyen of particle physicists of India, breathed his last on May 29, 2023. Unified theory Rajaji’s work is broadly in the area of particle and nuclear physics. With the addition of Rajaji, the Department of Theoretical Physics at Madras University, already well established, became one of the best places to do theoretical physics in India. In …
Just a few hundred feet from where we are sitting is a large metal chamber devoid of air and draped with the wires needed to control the instruments inside. Starting in May 2022, national and international teams of scientists converged at Michigan State University and began running scientific experiments at FRIB with the goal of creating, isolating and studying new …
In the aftermath of the atomic bombs dropped on Japan, many countries began to develop the techniques of nuclear technology. Patrick Blackett met Bhabha and Nehru in early 1947 and briefed the viceroy about the ‘atomic energy setup in India’. Nehru also defended the secrecy clause in a speech in 1954 while laying the foundation stone of TIFR, stating that …
