Box MS-024 Box 13
Contains 41 Results:
Swedish Newspaper clipping, Undated
"Stålfarfar slog rekord på Liseberg. 66-åringen sjunger in sin visa på grammofon"- Steel grandfather set a record at Liseberg. The 66 year old sings his song into a gramophone.
Sub-Series 3: Biographical Materials and Tributes
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.
High School admission form, 4 July 1914
Copy of the high school admission form of K S Krishnan.
Biographical Notes on K S Krishnan, bulk: 1953, November 1961, Undated
i) Some Persons and Personalities at Bow Bazar Science Association 1925- 1930 by C Mahadevan, ii) Biographical Memoir of Fellows of the Royal Society- Volume 13- Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan, iii)Krishnan, Friend and Philosopher, iv) Abstract from a talk delivered by Dr J H Van Vleck on Dangerous Gulfs: Some Reflections on the Social Implications of Computing Machines.
60th birthday -- Invitations, bulk: 1958
i) National Physical Laboratory- Felicitations to Prof. K S Krishnan FRS on his 60th birthday-Brochure, invitation, poem, ii) K S Krishnan's 60th birthday Celebration Committee- Accounts and Programme Schedule, iii) Shastiabdipoorthi celebration by Shree Vaishnava Siddhanta Sabha, New Delhi, iv) List of things to do on 60th birthday by K s Krishnan, v) A letter from D S Kothandaraman wishing success to the K S Krishnan 60th birthday committee.
60th birthday -- Addresses and Tributes, bulk: 1958
Addresses by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Lal Bahadur Shastri and others.
60th birthday -- Souvenirs, bulk: 1958
i) Dr K S Krishnan's 60th Birthday Celebrations-Programme Booklet, ii) Dr K S Krishnan's 60th Birthday Souvenir-1958 issued by Dr K S Krishnan's 60th birthday celebrations committee.
60th birthday -- Publications, bulk: Circa 1958
i) Work carried out under the auspices of the Indian National Committee for IGY 1957-58 issued on the occasion of the sixtieth birthday of K S Krishnan, ii) Professor K S Krishnan FRS- article reproduces with kind permission from the Souvenir Volume published by Dr K S Krishnan's Sixtieth Birthday Celebrations Committee of the Tamil Sangam, New Delhi.
Wedding Invitations., bulk: 1947, 1948, 1949, 1952, 1957
Wedding Invitations that sent to Krishnan.
Royal Society of Arts, bulk: 1949, 19 October 1951
It contains i)a booklet by the Royal Society of Arts titled "List of Fellows and Associates - 196th Session - 1949-1950". The booklet includes a list of fellows with their election dates to the society. On the cover of the brochure is an annotation by K S Krishnan with the date "19 October 1951", ii) A Schedule for the Newton Tercentenary Celebrations.
Convocation Invitations and Schedules, bulk: 28 January 1949, 18 December 1955, 25 December 1958
i) Convocation Invitations and Schedules from Lucknow University, Banaras Hindu University, Jadavpur University, ii) A congregation schedule for conferring honorary degrees at the University of Cambridge.
Dinner Plan, bulk: 31 May 1949
Seating arrangements for dinner participants include Feroze Gandhi, S S Bhatnagar, Joe D Walstrom, John Mathai, Prime Minister, A A Wells, K S Krishnan, Anna Ornsholt, Andrew V Corry, Girja Shankar Bajpai, Loy V Henderson, Indira Gandhi, John K Gustafson, H M Patel.
Postcards- 1950, bulk: 1950
Postcards that were sent to K S Krishnan in the 1950s.
Poems written for K S Krishnan, bulk: 29 December 1950, 31 December 1958, 19 January 1960
i) Dodlings by R. E. Peierls and L. Rosenfeld for the International Conference on "Elementary Particles" at TIFR, Bombay, ii)Homage- A Sonnet by T. A. Thirumelechary, iii) Vishwamitra back from Bombay by H S Rao.
Score Card -- Cricket, 1952
Scorecard with signatures of the players from a cricket match.
Sardar Patel Memorial Lectures, 1957
Sardar Patel Memorial Lectures 1957 by J B S Haldane on " The Unity and Diversity of Life" broadcast by All India Radio (AIR).
Soviet Nadu, 24 December 1958
A Tamil Magazine named Soviet Nadu or Soviet Country- a bi-monthly magazine - The Bulletin of the Soviet Embassy in India.
Indian Literature- Sahitya Akademi, 1959
Half-yearly journal of Sahitya Akademi- Vol 2, No. 2, April- September 1959.
P Kodanda Rao- Writings, Greetings and their schedules, bulk: 1959, Undated
P Kodanda Rao was a Servant of India Society member. It consists of i) Diwali Greetings for 1959, ii) Summary of activities of Mr and Mrs Kodanda Rao in 1958-1959, iii) Some Reminiscences of Mahatma Gandhi by P Kodanda Rao.
Postcards-1960, bulk: 4 January 1960
Postcard sent to Krishnan in 1960s.
The Illustrated Weekly of India, 26 March 1961
Contains an article titled "Eminent Scientists of India - K S Krishnan" by Jagjit Singh.
Srinivasa Ramanujan, bulk: 1987, Undated
i) Media Clipping- A Meteoric Mathematician by F C da Gama, ii) The Journal of Indian Institute of Science - Ramanujan Special Issue- "Srinivasa Ramanujan: A biographical sketch and a glimpse of his work.
Appeals, Undated
i) The Bharatiya Sanskritika Sangha (Regd), Delhi- An Appeal, ii) Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose- An Appeal.
Brochures, bulk: Undated
i) A brochure of the Madras Institute of Technology, which contains the history of its genesis, pictures and estimates of funds required to make the opening of the second-year courses possible in July 1950, ii) The National Physical Laboratory of India, Poona, iii) Tamil Encyclopedia brochure, iv) Ceramic Condensers by the million by the National Physical Laboratory.
Contact cards, bulk: Undated
Contact cards of people from colleagues and contemporaries.
Delhi Gymkhana Club Ltd., New Delhi, Undated
A blank signature card from the Delhi Gymkhana Club.
Invitation cards, bulk: Undated
Invitations to Krishnan for cultural programmes like concerts, performances, mathematics exhibitions, etc.
Ivy Superiority, Undated
An article by Henry Morton Robinson.
Photographic plates., Undated
A photographic plate of Józef Wierusz-Kowalski.
Postcards- Undated, bulk: Undated
Postcards sent to Krishnan from peers and friends from around the world.
Proposal for Nobel Prize in Literature for Sri Aurobindo, Undated
Letter to the President of the Svenska Akademien, Stockholm, Sweden, proposing the Nobel Prize in Literature award to Sri Aurobindo.
Stamps, bulk: Undated
A collection of stamps cut from envelopes.
Series 5: Personal and Ephemera
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.
Sub-Series 2: Ephemera
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.
Postcards- 1930, bulk: 1930
Postcards sent to K S Krishnan in the 1930s.
Souvenirs, bulk: 28 February 1935, 5 February 1935, 26 September 1953
i) A Souvenir booklet for the Silver Jubilee of S. Krishna Iyengar, Headmaster, Hindu High School, Srivilliputtur; ii)Booklet from Srivilliputtur Hindu High School Old Students' Association- The Great Trio- Birth Centenarians - Alumni, iii) Centenary Souvenir - Gurugnanasambandar Hindu Higher Secondary School, Srivilliputtur, iv) Souvenirs from an International Conference of the Theoretical Physicists, Hiroshima, Japan.
Media Clippings, bulk: 19 July 1936 - February 1955, Undated
i) Indian Institute of Science, ii)Einstein's New Theory, iii) New Theory of Gravitation, iv) letter with an attached media clipping about Krishnan taking over the Directorship of Scientific and Industrial Research, v)The S I Factor?- on Southern India producing high proportion of India's top mathematicians and scientists, vi)High German honour for Indian woman, vii) The Eligibility of Women for Admission into the fellowship of the Royal Society.
Travel File, bulk: 1937,1960, Undated
Hotel bills and brochures from Krishnan's travels.
Postcards- 1940, bulk: Circa 1940
Postcards that were sent to K S Krishnan in the 1940s.
Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal, bulk: 31 December 1940
Contains a booklet by the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal titled "List of Patrons, Officers, Council Members, Members, Fellows, and Medallists of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal".
Viceroy's Tour of Tribal Area, bulk: 18 November 1946
Information Cables from the Government of India Information Services, Washington 8, D. C., on the Viceroy's tour of tribal area in the North West Frontier.