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Spiral waves in CO oxidation on a Pt surface.
(Courtesy: Gerhard Ertl)



back cover Tuticorin Raghavachari Govindachari
(1915 – 2001)
( Illustration: Subhankar Biswas )

 

 

June 2008  Volume 13 Number 6 Contents

EDITORIAL
503
--- G Nagendrappa
ARTICLE-IN-A-BOX
504

T R Govindachari

--- K Nagarajan

SERIES ARTICLE
510

Snippets of Physics

The Logarithms of Physics

--- T Padmanabhan

GENERAL ARTICLE
519
541
548

Molecular Mechanism of Heterogeneous Catalysis

The 2007 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

--- R S Swathi and K L Sebastian

561
583

The Logarithmic Mean

--- Rajendra Bhatia

THINK IT OVER
595
REFLECTIONS
596

The Scientific Enterprise

Science: Some Definitions and Views

--- V V Raman

INFORMATION AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
606

Flowering Trees
--- (Credits: K Shankar Rao,CES, IISc, Bangalore)