Resonance     journal of science education

December 2005 Volume 10 Number 12
Editorial  
T V Ramakrishnan
06 Origin (?) of the Universe - The Expanding Universe
 Jayant V Narlikar
12 What can the Answer be? - Elementary Vector Analysis
V Balakrishnan
20 The Chandrasekhar Limit
G Srinivasan
23 Electrons in Condensed Matter
 T V Ramakrishnan
39 Gems: Obiects of Aesthetic Beauty and Scientific Curiosity
A K Ramdas
42 Homi Bhabha and Cosmic Ray Research in India
B V Sreekantan
52 Schrodinger's Uncertainty Principle? - Lilies can be Painted
Rajaram Nityananda
55 J J Thomson - A 'Thinking' Experimentalist
Rohini Godbole
58 Wegener and his Theory of Continental Drift
Ramesh Chander
76 Dark Matter in the Universe
Bikram Phookun and Biman Nath
83 Jagadis Chandra Bose and His Pioneering Research on Microwaves
C George Verghese and George C Verghese
86 Search for a Final theory of Matter
Ashoke Sen
96 Einstein and the Special Theory of Relativity
Supurna Sinha
106 Pollen Grains, Random Walks and Einstein
Sriram Ramaswamy
125 The Story of the Photon
N Mukunda
142 Bose-Einstein Condensation - Birds of a Feather Flock Together
Rajaram Nityananda
148 Einstein as Armchair Detective: The Case of Stimulated Radiation
Vasant Natarajan
163 Thermal lonisation and the Saha Equation
Rajaram Nityananda
164 Discovery of Parity Violation - Breakdown of' a Symmetry Principle
Amit Roy
176 Ludwig Boltzmann and Entropy
Sriram Ramaswamy
179 The Case of Missing Solar Neutrinos with their Split Personalities
S M Chitre
193 Dirac's Conception of the Magnetic Monopole, and its Modern Avatars
Sunil Mukhi
203 Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Window to a Watery World
Kavita Dorai
217 Vikram A Sarabhai
Mrinalini Sarabhai
220 And Gamow said, Let there be a Hot Universe
Somak Raychaudhury
232 The Crisis of Science
Satyendra Nath Bose
242 The Scientific Outlook
C V Raman
246 Einstein's Last Dream: The Space - Time Unification of Fundamental Forces
Abdus Salam
Editorial Note: The articles as well as the author details have been reprinted as they appeared in the original issue.


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