Box MS-024 Box 3

Content Description From the Collection:

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. 

Content Description From the Collection:

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. 

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A "Capital" Exercise notebook containing details about various plants and trees.

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Notebook containing lab notes and excerpted notes about the crystal structure of heterocyclic compounds and the properties of various crystals. It also contains loose paper with notes on similar themes.

Scope and Contents Loose pages previously bound in a ring folder containing excerpts from the following: i) "Brighter than a Thousand Suns: The Moral and Political History of the Atomic Scientists" by Robert Jungk, mentioning Rutherford, Max Born, Oppenheimer, Einstein ii) A text about Carl F Gauss written by G Waldo Dunnington iii) Some text by Jerome K Jerome and Confucius iv) "History of Science in Manchester" by J G Crowther v) Notes from the collected papers of Hertz vi) Notes and Records from the Royal...

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Loose notebook pages containing research notes and exercise notes related to the scattering of light by various colourless liquids. It also includes calculations about liquids' polarisation, repolarisation and molecular anisotropy. Mentions C V Raman, K Rao and K R Ramanathan.

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A greyish-brown colour notebook and loose pages of another notebook with exercise notes, lab notes, and research notes about K R Ramanathan's experiment related to the scattering of light in various colourless and dust-free liquids.

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Loose pages previously bound in a ring folder containing notes and excerpts related to the densest packing of spheres, ultrasonic, mathematics, and electrical resistivity of graphite. It also includes a letter from D N Wadia dated 11 February 1950 and from D P Antia dated 8 March 1950.

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Loose pages previously bound in a black folder containing excerpted notes and research notes on atomic physics, chemical physics, crystal lattice structures, electrical and magnetic properties of crystals, metrology, ion exchange, radiocarbon determination of dates, and nuclear physics.

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Loose pages previously bound in a ring folder containing excerpted notes, research notes, exercise notes, lab notes, graphs related to Compton X-ray scattering, atom and its constituents, Bose-Einstein statistics, nuclear physics, magnetic fields, gravitational fields and anisotropic crystals.