Resonance     journal of science education

July 2005      Volume 10  Number 7
 
Editorial
Editor's Column  
S Mahadevan
Article-in-a-Box
Ernst Walter Mayr – The Grand Vizier of Evolutionary Biology
Anindita Bhadra
  GENERAL ARTICLES
08 Techniques in X-ray Astronomy
Imaging Detectors
Kulinder Pal Singh
21 Polemics and Synthesis: Ernst Mayr and Evolutionary Biology
Renee M Borges
34 What is the Burnside Problem?
Binod Kumar Sahoo and B Sury
49 Polymer Nanocomposites
Arunkumar Lagashetty and A Venkataraman
CLASSROOM
61 An Appreciation of Free Radical Chemistry
Part 4. Free Radicals in Atmospheric Chemistry

G Nagendrappa
73 Two Dimensional Potential Mapping – Monte Carlo Simulation
J Meena Devi and K Ramachandran
THINK IT OVER
85 On a Use of Normal Distribution
Shailesh A Shirali
BOOK REVIEWS
87 This is Biology: The Science of the Living World
S Mahadevan
CLASSICS
89
80 Years of Watching the Evolutionary Scenery
Ernst Mayr
Information and Announcements
95 Refresher Course on Physics of the Atmosphere
Errata
Inside Back Cover
Flowering Trees
(Credits: K Sankara Rao,IISc)
Front Cover Back Cover


Image of the Antarctic ozone hole, September 2000. See page 61 for more details. (Courtesy: NASA).

Ernst Walter Mayr
(1904 – 2005)

(Illustration: Subhankar Biswas)

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