K S Krishnan Papers
Content Description
This collection contains material related to the life and work of K S Krishnan, a physicist and scientific administrator. The papers have been arranged into nine series - notes and notebooks, scientific research, administration and teaching, talks and writings, photographs, personal and ephemera, correspondence, material related to Krishnan collected by Krishnan family, material about Krishnan collected by D C V Mallik, and Tamil documents - spirituality and literature.
Dates
- Creation: 1876 - 2000
Creator
- Krishnan, Kariamanikkam Srinivasa, Sir, 1898-1961 (Physicist) (Person)
- Ramachandran, Anjali (Processing Archivist, Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for access unless mentioned in specific folders of the finding aid.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright may not have been assigned to Archives, National Centre for Biological Sciences. Permission for reproduction or distribution must be obtained in writing from the Archives at NCBS (archives@ncbs.res.in). The Archives at NCBS makes no representation that it is the copyright owner in all of its collections. The user must obtain all necessary rights and clearances before use of material and material may only be reproduced for academic and non-commercial use.
Biographical / Historical
Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan, known as K S Krishnan, was an Indian physicist and scientific administrator. He was the co-discoverer of Raman-scattering, for which his mentor, C V Raman, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930. Krishnan was deeply interested in physics and chemistry and had conducted experimental studies on the scattering of light in liquids and the magnetic and optical properties of crystals. He was the first director of the National Physical Laboratory in Delhi, one of the earliest national laboratories created under the Council of Industrial and Scientific Research in post-independent India. He worked as a scientific administrator and advisor to the Government of India. He was a member of the Atomic Energy Commission of India and advocated for the peaceful use of atomic energy. Krishnan was also interested in Tamil literature and Vaishnavite philosophy. Krishnan died while in office in 1961.
Partial Extent
16 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
The intellectual arrangement strives to preserve the provenance and original order of the papers. Where an original order could not be found, the Archives have applied an order, and folders within sub-series are arranged usually in chronological or alphabetical order. See Scope and Content section for details.
Physical Location
Archives at NCBS
Physical Description
Some letters are fragile and require careful handling.
Subject
- Nehru, Jawaharlal, 1889-1964 (Person)
- C.V., Raman, Sir (Chandrasekhara Venkata), 1888-1970 (Person)
- Kosambi, D D (Damodar Dharmananda) (31 July 1907-29 June 1966) (Person)
Source
- Thiruvady, Vijay (Donor, Person)
Cultural context
Geographic
- Allahabad -- United Provinces -- British India
- Bangalore -- Karnataka -- India
- Calcutta -- India
- Chennai -- Tamil Nadu -- India
- Dacca -- British India
- Florence -- Italy
- Liège -- Belgium
- Mumbai -- Maharashtra -- India
- New Delhi -- India
- Strasbourg -- France
Topical
- Crystal Optics
- Crystallography
- Mathematics
- National Physical Laboratory (NPL)
- Physics
- Raman Effect -- Raman scattering
Uniform Title
- Title
- K S Krishnan Papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Anjali JR
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Archives at NCBS Repository
National Centre for Biological Sciences - Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Bangalore Karnataka 560065 India
+9180 6717 6010
+9180 6717 6011
archives@ncbs.res.in
