Box MS-024 Box 11

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. 

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. 

Contain a photo of K S Krishnan with Jawaharlal Nehru.

Contains 1 photograph of 15.4cm by 10.4cm, 1 photograph of 15.7cm by 10.3cm, 1 photograph of 15.9cm by 10.1cm, 1 photograph of 16.1cm by 10.1cm, 1 photograph of 16cm by 10.4cm, and 15.9cm by 10.4cm from a visit by the Turkish Press Delegation to the National Physical Laboratory of India.

Contains 1 photograph of 20.9cm by 13.9cm, 1 photograph of 22cm by 14.4cm, 1 photograph of 21.6cm by 14.7cm, and 1 photograph of 22cm by 14.1cm from the opening ceremony of the Auditorium and the Cafeteria of the National Physical Laboratory of India. Includes images of K S Krishnan, Jawaharlal Nehru, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar, J B S Haldane and others.

Contains 1 photograph of 20.7cm by 14.9cm and 1 photograph of 19.1cm by 14.8cm from a visit by Clement Attlee, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, to the National Physical Laboratory of India.

Contains photos taken at a meeting at the NPL Library.

Contains five photographs of 5.7cm by 5.8cm, 1 photograph of 8.3cm by 6.1cm, 1 photograph of 16.2cm by 11.5cm, 1 photograph of 17.9cm by 12.4cm, 1 photograph of 21.2cm by 14.8cm, 1 photograph of 21.5cm by 15.3cm, 1 photograph of 21cm by 16cm, 1 photograph of 21cm by 16cm, 1 photograph of 20.8cm by 15.6cm, and 1 photograph of 21.2cm by 15.4cm from a visit by U Nu, former Prime Minister of Burma, to the National Physical Laboratory.

Contains 1 photograph of 20.3cm by 14.5cm, 1 photograph of 19.7cm by 14.7cm, 1 photograph of 19.6cm by 14.6cm, and 1 photograph of 20.4cm by 14.3cm from a visit by Josip Broz Tito, former Marshal of Yugoslavia, to the National Physical Laboratory of India.

Contains 1 photograph of 20.8cm by 15.8cm from a visit by the Indonesian delegation to the National Physical Laboratory of India.

Contains 1 photograph of 20.3cm by 14.9cm, 1 photograph of 19.8cm by 14.9cm, and 21cm by 14.9cm of a visit by Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev, a delegation from the USSR to the National Physical Laboratory of India.

Contains 1 photograph of 19.6cm by 15cm, 1 picture of 20.3cm by 13.7 cm, and 1 photograph of 15.7cm by 21.2cm from a visit by Gaetano Martino, former Minister for Foreign Affairs, Italy, to the National Physical Laboratory of India.

Contains 1 photograph of 18.6cm by 14.5cm, 1 photograph of 8.8cm by 6cm, 1 photograph of 16.6cm by 11.5cm, 1 photograph of 18.3cm by 12cm, and 20.2cm by 14.6cm of a visit by Hans Christian Svane Hansen, former Prime Minister of Denmark, to the National Physical Laboratory of India.

Contains 1 photograph of 24.6cm by 14.7cm from a meeting of the Directors of National Laboratories in India at NPL.

Contains two photographs of 22.1cm by 14.6cm, two pictures of 22.1cm by 14.7cm, 1 photograph of 22.6cm by 14.8cm, 1 photograph of 20.9cm by 14.4cm, 1 photograph of 21.1cm by 14.6cm, 1 photograph of 22cm by 14.5cm, and 1 photograph of 21.7cm by 14.5cm from an informal visit by Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi to NPL during the construction of its new building. Includes images of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar and K S Krishnan.

Contains photos of the solar cooker produced at NPL.

Contains three photographs of 20.9cm by 16.2cm, 1 photograph of 16.4cm by 11.7cm, 1 photograph of 18.2cm by 12.5cm, 1 photograph of 21cm by 16.1cm, and 1 photograph of 8.5cm by 7cm of a visit by Akihito, former Prince of Japan, to the National Physical Laboratory of India.

Contains 1 photograph of 15.8cm by 14.7cm from a visit by Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, King of Bhutan, to the National Physical Laboratory of India.

Contains 1 photograph of 15.8cm by 11.6cm from a visit by Eleanor Roosevelt to the National Physical Laboratory of India.

Contains photographs of unidentified delegates to NPL.

Contains photographs of unidentified delegates to NPL.

K S Krishnan with his colleagues at NPL.

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. 

Contains 1 photograph of 23.1cm by 17.1cm mounted on a board of exact measurement from a Study meeting on Magnetism organised by Institut International De Coopération Intellectuelle and Service Central De La Recherche Scientifique De France in Strasbourg.

Contains photographs of William Bragg, P Swings, A Cotton, etc.

Contains 1 photograph of 24cm by 18cm from the Zeeman Congress held in Amsterdam between 17 to 22 September 1946.

Contains photographs from a visit to Jakarta, Indonesia.

Contains 15 photographs from a visit to Japan.

Contains 1 photograph of 24.1cm by 18cm on a mountboard measuring 28.2cm by 22cm from the Colloquium on Photoelasticity and Photoplasticity organised by the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM) at Bruxelles, Belgium.

Contains 1 photograph of 22.9cm by 12.8cm and 1 photograph of 22.5cm by 14.9cm of the delegates present at the UNESCO-NISI Symposium on 'Wind Power and Solar Energy' held at the National Physical Laboratory of India.

Contains 15 photographs from a visit to USA.

Contains 1 photograph of 25.3cm by 20.4cm from the eighth Meeting of the Executive Board of the International Council of Scientific Unions held in Bagnères-de-Bigorre, France.

Contains 1 photograph of 27cm by 22.3cm from a Conference on "Electron Transport in Metals and Solids" held in Ottawa, Canada.

Contains photographs from a meeting or conference in Cairo, Egypt.

Contains photographs from a visit to Uppsala, Sweden.

Contains photographs with the Lonsdale family perhaps taken during a trip to England.

Photographs from a trip to Europe -- from the garden party at Lucca, Liege, Prof Weiss, Tutton's country house, Van Vleck, Prof Mott, etc.

It contains photographs from a commemorative event - perhaps taken post knighthood or at a Royal Society event.

Contains photographs from a commemorative event - perhaps taken post knighthood or at a Royal Society event.