C.N.R. RAO- A CHAMPION OF
BASIC SCIENCE RESEARCH
Prof.
Rao promoted initiatives in high-temperature superconductivity and more
recently in nano sciences, which provided funding for Indian scientists to
carry out frontline research in these fields. At his urging, five Indian
Institutes of Science Education and Research have been set up to capture promising
students at the undergraduate stage and provide them high-quality science
training in a research environment.After taking his doctorate from Purdue
University in the U.S. and working as research associate at the University of
California, Berkeley, he returned to India in 1959 and joined the Indian
Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore.He then moved to IIT Kanpur, but
returned to IISc in 1976. There he set up the Materials Science Centre and the
Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit. “This was a momentous initiative”
that allowed him and his colleagues to keep pace with all the developments in
the new chemistry of materials, remarked P. Rama Rao, himself a materials
scientist who has known Prof. Rao for over 50 years.Prof. Rao was director of
IISc from 1984 to 1994. During that period, he expanded and transformed the
institute in many ways, according to P. Balaram, its current directorProf. Rao
was the founder president of the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific
Research (JNCASR) in Bangalore. He is a National Research Professor and also
the Linus Paul
Prof. John Kurakar
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