Resonance     journal of science education

January 1997 Volume 2  Number 1
Editorial 
N. Mukunda
Sálim Ali...
Z Futehally
Science Smiles
R K Laxman
  SERIES ARTICLES
08 The Challenge of Weather Prediction Difficulties in Predicting the Weather
B N Goswami
16 The Vacillating Mathematician Where Does She End Up?
K B Athreya
25 The Immune System and Bodily Defence Why Do We Need an Immune System?
Vineeta Bal and Satyajit Rath
34 Error Correcting Codes The Hamming Codes
Priti Shankar
  GENERAL ARTICLES
Nakula's Extraordinary Talent Mathematics From the Mahabharatha
C Musili
53 Fostering Creativity in Students A Short Synthesis Project for the Organic Chemistry Laboratory
Mary M Mader and Charles A Liberko
60 CLASSROOM
  Impressions of the 37th IMO 96
Ajay C Ramdoss
  Refrigerator Problem
R Srinivasan
66 THINK IT OVER
  Discussion of question raised in Vol.1, No.9.
68 RESEARCH NEWS
Discovery of Fullerenes Giving a New Shape to Carbon Chemistry
Rathna Ananthaiah
74
BOOK REVIEWS
The Fall of a Sparrow The Life of Sálim Ali
Kartik Shanker
Quantum Revolution The Birth of Quantum Mechanics
A K Vijaykumar
81
REFLECTIONS
An Ornithological Pilgrimage to Lake Manasarowar and Mount Kailas
Sálim Ali


Front Cover
The cover picture shows two representations of a nanotube made of 630 carbon atoms. The structure consists of a graphite sheet of hexagons folded into a cylinder, with 12 pentagons capping the tube. Such structures belong to the extended fullerene family of cage carbon molecules.

 

Back Cover
Sálim Ali (1896–1987)
( illustration by Prema Iyer)

 

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