front cover

 

Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1991.
Courtesy: NASA



back cover Edwin Powell Hubble (1889-1953)

 

March 2009  Volume 14 Number 3Contents

EDITORIAL
209
--- Biman Nath
ARTICLE IN A BOX
211

Edwin Powell Hubble

--- Swara Ravindranath

GENERAL ARTICLE
216
226
236

The Central Dogma of Molecular Biology

A Retrospective after Fifty Years

--- Michel Morange

248

Chemistry is Everygreen...

2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

--- Swagata Dasgupta

SERIES ARTICLE
259

Snippets of Physics

Hubble Expansion for Pedestrians

--- T Padmanabhan

272

Aerobasics – An Introduction to Aeronautics

Supersonic Aerodynamics

--- S P Govinda Raju

FACE TO FACE
290
CLASSICS
303

The Exploration of Space

--- Edwin P Hubble

INFORMATION AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
307
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309

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