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K S Krishnan Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-024

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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

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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.

Extent

16 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

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