pp 1-3 December 2005 Editorial World Year of Physics - 2005

Editorial

T V Ramakrishnan

pp 4-5 December 2005 Table of Contents World Year of Physics - 2005

Table of Contents

pp 6-11 December 2005 World Year of Physics - 2005

Origin (?) of the Universe - The Expanding Universe

Jayant V Narlikar

pp 12-19 December 2005 World Year of Physics - 2005

What can the Answer be? - Elementary Vector Analysis

V Balakrishnan

pp 20-22 December 2005 World Year of Physics - 2005

The Chandrasekhar Limit

G Srinivasan

pp 23-38 December 2005 World Year of Physics - 2005

Electrons in Condensed Matter

T V Ramakrishnan

pp 39-41 December 2005 World Year of Physics - 2005

Gems: Obiects of Aesthetic Beauty and Scientific Curiosity

A K Ramdas

pp 42-51 December 2005 World Year of Physics - 2005

Homi Bhabha and Cosmic Ray Research in India

B V Sreekantan

pp 52-54 December 2005 World Year of Physics - 2005

Schrodinger's Uncertainty Principle? - Lilies can be Painted

Rajaram Nityananda

pp 55-57 December 2005 World Year of Physics - 2005

J. J. Thomson - A 'Thinking' Experimentalist

Rohini Godbole

pp 58-75 December 2005 World Year of Physics - 2005

Wegener and his Theory of Continental Drift

Ramesh Chander

pp 76-82 December 2005 World Year of Physics - 2005

Dark Matter - Dark Matter in the Universe

Bikram Phookun Biman Nath

pp 83-85 December 2005 World Year of Physics - 2005

Jagadis Chandra Bose and His Pioneering Research on Microwaves

C George Verghese George C Verghese

pp 86-95 December 2005 World Year of Physics - 2005

Search for a Final theory of Matter

Ashoke Sen

pp 96-105 December 2005 World Year of Physics - 2005

Einstein and the Special Theory of Relativity

Supurna Sinha

pp 106-124 December 2005 World Year of Physics - 2005

Pollen Grains, Random Walks and Einstein

Sriram Ramaswamy

pp 125-141 December 2005 World Year of Physics - 2005

The Story of the Photon

N Mukunda

pp 142-147 December 2005 World Year of Physics - 2005

Bose-Einstein Condensation - Birds of a Feather Flock Together

Rajaram Nityananda

pp 148-162 December 2005 World Year of Physics - 2005

Einstein as Armchair Detective: The Case of Stimulated Radiation

Vasant Natarajan

pp 163-163 December 2005 World Year of Physics - 2005

Thermal lonisation and the Saha Equation

Rajaram Nityananda

pp 164-175 December 2005 World Year of Physics - 2005

Discovery of Parity Violation - Breakdown of' a Symmetry Principle

Amit Roy

pp 176-178 December 2005 World Year of Physics - 2005

Ludwig Boltzmann and Entropy

Sriram Ramaswamy

pp 179-192 December 2005 World Year of Physics - 2005

The Case of Missing Solar Neutrinos with their Split Personalities

S M Chitre

pp 193-202 December 2005 World Year of Physics - 2005

Dirac's Conception of the Magnetic Monopole, and its Modern Avatars

Sunil Mukhi

pp 203-216 December 2005 World Year of Physics - 2005

Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Window to a Watery World

Kavita Dorai

pp 217-219 December 2005 World Year of Physics - 2005

Vikram A Sarabhai

Mrinalini Sarabhai

pp 220-231 December 2005 World Year of Physics - 2005

And Gamow said, Let there be a Hot Universe

Somak Raychaudhury

pp 232-241 December 2005 World Year of Physics - 2005

The Crisis of Science

Satyendra Nath Bose

pp 242-245 December 2005 World Year of Physics - 2005

The Scientific Outlook

C V Raman

pp 246-253 December 2005 World Year of Physics - 2005

Einstein's Last Dream: The Space - Time Unification of Fundamental Forces

Abdus Salam

pp 257-258 December 2005 World Year of Physics - 2005

Author Index

pp 259-264 December 2005 World Year of Physics - 2005

Subject Index

pp 265-266 December 2005 World Year of Physics - 2005

Index

pp 267-267 December 2005 Flowering Trees World Year of Physics - 2005

Prima Vera

pp 268-268 December 2005 Featured Scientist World Year of Physics - 2005

C. V. Raman