Resonance - journal of science education August 2002 Volume 7 Number 8

Resonance journal of science education

August 2002 Volume 7 Number 8

Sketch from a 1792 manuscript of the 18 ft high granite pillar erected that year to mount the telescope.

Vainu Bappu Telescope Building Kavalur

DEPARTMENTS

Editorial
Associate Editor’s
Column
Amitabh Joshi

Article-in-a-Box

Tribute to
Prof. M K V Bappu
Harlan J Smith

M K Vainu Bappu
J C Bhattacharyya

When The Sun Goes
Out
M K V Bappu

Information and
Announcements

Chemistry Olympiad
Examination

Refresher Course on
Spectroscopy,
Chemical Reactions
and Biology
sponsored by
Indian Academy of
Sciences, Bangalore

Inside Back Cover

Flowering Trees

(Courtesy: K Sankara Rao)

SERIES ARTICLES

Glial Cells: The Other Cells of the Nervous System
Schwann Cells – Regulators of the Periphery
Yasmin Khan and Medha S Rajadhyaksha

GENERAL ARTICLES

Madras and Kodaikanal Observatories:
A Brief History
Rajesh Kochhar

The Mystery and Beauty of Total Solar Eclipses
T Chandrasekhar

Kaun Banega Crorepati – A Million Dollars for a Mathematician
M S Raghunathan

Insect Detectives
Forensic Entomology
P K Sumodan

Photoresists for Microlithography
The Role of Polymer Microstructure
Debmalya Roy, P K Basu and S V Eswaran

Fields Medal

The Case of Missing Solar Neutrinos with their Split Personalities
S M Chitre

Front Cover	Kavalur Observatory Photo by: D Rosario and N Kameswara Rao Courtesy: Indian Institute of Astrophysics (Colour scheme for cover by Jayant Rao)
Back Cover	Manali Kallat Vainu Bappu ( 1927 – 1982)

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