Box MS-024 Box 9

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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. 

Scope and Contents Contains the following documents from the Réunion Internationale De Photoluminescence held at Warsaw: i. A chart with the prices of Rooms and Meals in Some Hotels in Warsaw ii. Program of the Réunion Internationale De Photoluminescence iii. An invitation brochure from the Polish Physical Society for a meeting dedicated to the phenomena of photoluminescence iv. A Logding statement card v. A participation and reduced fair exception card vi. A notice for foreign members vii. Some instructions...

Scope and Contents Contains a menu for lunch at the Great Eastern Hotel. It also includes the signatures of the attendees. i. Invitation from the President Council and Fellows of the Royal Society of London to the Empire Scientific Conference from 17 June to 8 July 1946. ii. Card with Programme of the Ceremony of the Opening of the Royal Society Empire Scientific Conference at the Senate House of the University of London. iii. Menu card and a seating plan for the Conference Dinner of the X-Ray Analysis...

Scope and Contents It contains an invitation from the Swedish Minister to a reception at the Delhi Gymkhana Club, celebrating the birthday of the King of Sweden. Contains the following: i. A menu card and a seating plan for the Dinner at Uppsala Castle as part of the Second International Congress of Crystallography. ii. Invitation from Maulana Abul Kalam Azad to the opening of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. Contains a menu card from the Official Dinner organised by the Union...

Scope and Contents Contains the following: i. Invitation to a series of eight public talks by J Krishnamurti at the Constitution Club, New Delhi grounds. ii. Invitation from the Congress for Cultural Freedom to meet A K Brohi and Begum A K Brohi at the Imperial Hotel, New Delhi. iii. Invitation from the Ambassador of the USSR, I A Benediktov, to a Celebrating Function at the Soviet Pavilion Theatre of the World Agricultural Fair, New Delhi. iv. Invitation from the president of the India International...

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. 

Scope and Contents Contains a letter from S Venkateswaran, Examiner of Patents, to K S Krishnan with special instructions and warnings related to his patent application. Enclosed with the letter is the Patent Application by K S Krishnan, Specifications about a new method for measuring magnetic field and apparatus, a typewritten document explaining the latest method for which the patent application is being submitted, two sheets with schematics of an instrument, and an amendment guide along with instructions...

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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Contains the following: i. Typewritten draft with handwritten annotations of a thesis for the D Sc degree at Dacca University. ii. An application by Akshayananda Bose for the Royal Society and Nuffield Foundation Commonwealth Bursaries Scheme. K S Krishnan is mentioned as a scientist prepared to recommend the visit to the laboratories for study.

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Typewritten draft of an article by Bhagwati Charan Guha titled "The Magnetic Properties of Some Paramagnetic Crystals at Low Temperature". On the first page is the following handwritten annotation: "Communicated by W G Penney F R S - Received 3 October 1947".

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Typewritten report by the examination committee about C Mahadevan's thesis submitted for the D Sc degree.

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Report on the thesis titled "Studies on Collage" submitted by G K Ambady for the Master of Science Degree.

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Report on the thesis submitted by S Venkataraman by O W Richardson, H T Flint and E V Appleton.

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It contains a typewritten draft of a report on the thesis submitted by T S Krishnan for the PhD degree at Bombay University titled "Investigations on the Raman Spectra of Crystals".

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Contains a typewritten draft of a report on the thesis submitted by V Amritalingam for the degree of Master of Science titled "Crystal Structure of DL-Aspartic Acid".

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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Loose pages containing handwritten notes from a lecture on modern concepts in physics.

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Loose pages containing handwritten notes from a lecture about Graphite.

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Loose pages containing handwritten notes for a lecture on electronic band structure in the presence of Frenkel defects.

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Loose pages containing handwritten notes from a lecture on producing low temperatures for experimental use.

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Loose pages containing handwritten notes for a lecture on producing low temperatures for experimental physics.

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Loose pages containing handwritten notes from a lecture on magnetism and entropy also include anecdotes about Michael Faraday.

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Loose pages containing handwritten notes from a partial lecture on magnetic properties of organic molecules.

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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Contains a booklet with K S Krishnan's Presidential address at the Twenty-Seventh Indian Science Congress, Section of Physics at Madras. The address was delivered on 4 January 1940 and printed in the Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Indian Science Congress, Part 2 on 29 April 1940.

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Contains a notice and a draft of the Sri Krishnarajendra Silver Jubilee lecture delivered by K S Krishnan titled "The Place of Fundamental Research in Industrial Progress".

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A handwritten draft for a talk by K S Krishnan titled "My Test-Tube Trials" which was to be recorded in Lucknow on 10 March 1944 and broadcasted on radio in Lahore on 14 March 1944.

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Contains a typewritten summary of a talk given by K S Krishnan on the "Carbon Atom in Chemistry" as part of the Proceedings of the General Meeting of the Pusa Agricultural Research Society held on 10 March 1950.

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Contains a letter from Rabinder Singh, National Metallurgical Laboratory, enclosed with a copy of K S Krishnan's special lecture on Graphite delivered as part of the Symposium on "Recent Trends in the Field of Production, Practice and Research on Refractories Used in Metal Industry". Also enclosed are copies of the questions E H Bucknall, S Visvanathan, G V L N Murty, Parvez Mehta, T V Prasad, and T W Talwalkar asked regarding the lecture.

Scope and Contents Contains the following: i. Transcript of a talk in Tamil about the peaceful uses of atomic energy recorded at Palais des Nations, Geneva on 19 August 1955. ii. Transcript of a talk by K S Krishnan for the Polish Radio recorded on 20 August 1955 at the Palais des Nations, Geneva, as part of the International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy. iii. Handwritten notes of answers to Mrs. Infeld's questions to K S Krishnan. iv. The undated handwritten transcript of a broadcast...

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Contains a note with an attached verbatim transcription of a lecture delivered by K S Krishnan at the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineers for being elected as an Honorary Member.

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.