Resonance     journal of science education

December 1997 Volume 2  Number 12
Editorial 
N. Mukunda
J J Thomson
Rohini Godbole
Science Smiles
R K Laxman
  GENERAL ARTICLES
08 Subatomic Physics – 100 Not Out and Still Going Strong!
Avinash Khare
17 Electrons in Condensed Matter
T V Ramakrishnan
33 Ohm's Law, Kirchoff's Law and the Drunkard's Walk The Drunkard's Walk
Rahul Roy
39 Transistors – From Point Contact to Single Electron
D N Bose
55 Seeing with Electrons
A K Raychaudhuri
66 Electrons in Molecules
B M Deb
77 Electron Transfer in Chemistry and Biology – The Primary Events in Photosynthesis
V Krishnan
87 THINK IT OVER
  Solution to Puzzling Rectangles
K R Manjunath and Ch. Sunil Kumar
  What are the shapes of the f - orbitals
K L Sebastian
92
 CLASSICS
Cathode Rays
J J Thomson
The Theory of Positrons
R P Feynman
108
 RESEARCH NEWS
The Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine 1997
V Nanjundaiah
INFORMATION AND ANNOUCEMENTS
Nobel Prizes in Physics Awarded for Work Relating to the Electron
Acknowledgments


Front Cover
The cover photograph ( colour enhanced to show the contrast ) shows a dark blue solution of solvated electrons generated by adding a little sodium metal to liquid ammonia at –33° C.

 

Back Cover
Joseph John Thomson
( 1856–1940 )

 

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