Welcome Back! Login to your account below. Forgotten Password? Sign Up. Create New Account! Fill the forms bellow to register. All fields are required. Log In. Retrieve your password Please enter your username or email address to reset your password. One of the fondest memories was meeting Nobel laureate professor CV Raman when he visited our school in Later, we had the privilege of seeing his lab, a great and humbling experience that had a big and lasting effect on me.
I think by six or so my mother had narrated in Kannada all the episodes of the Ramayana and Mahabharatha. My father wanted me to speak in English too, and it helped that there was an academic atmosphere at home. Part of my high school was in the Acharya Patashala in Basavanagudi and one of the epochal events here was the love for chemistry.
I passed my high school exam in first class in Among all these, he chose Purdue. I also took part in some of the freedom movement meetings in whatever capacity I could. Armed with an early interest in science I joined Central College, Bangalore, passing BSc in first class at the age of College also gave me a chance to hone my skills in English, debates and other activities. I had also learnt Sanskrit by then. Those were also the days when I enjoyed the little joys of life like set dosas or ragi muddes ragi balls or even surviving on half a cup of coffee.
We had to work hard in the nights due to power shortages. Professor Joshi also helped us enlarge our vision by asking us to prepare abstracts for presentation in the annual science congress sessions.
We gained fresh insights into our fields of study interacting with great scientists who stopped by at BHU. My first paper was in the Agra University Journal of Research in Obtaining first PhD was the first step that boosted his motivation. Later, Rao obtained doctorates from 60 recognised universities. Till date, he has written 1, research papers and 45 scientific books.
The entire journey of getting exposure to grab immense knowledge got completed with the help of his father and mother who sowed the seed of learning from his childhood. Consistency was another factor that he learned from his parents and eventually, it helped him to get an immense fame and knowledge in his domain. Quite obvious, C. Rao unfurled his knowledge all over India and world with his write ups and researches.
So how the Government of India could have ignored his talent, thus, they announced his selection for Bharat Ratna on 16th November With this highest civilian award of India, C. Rao became the third scientist following C. Raman and A. Abdul Kalam to receive this honour. Former President Pranab Mukherjee honoured C. He and his research group have found that nanoscale metal oxides and nitrides show magnetism at room temperature due to surface effects. The number of national and international awards in science won by Professor Rao are too numerous to list.
Professor Rao has been a great spokesman for research in basic sciences and a bitter critic of the current trend among the young to pursue lucrative careers in Information Technology and Biotechnology ignoring the basic sciences. He feels that the oft-quoted division of basic research and applied research is artificial.
Research in basic sciences is at the core of all development and has to be encouraged if the country had to progress. He has spoken widely and forcefully to improve the lot of the scientists and the environment in the universities and research establishments to make science attractive to the younger generation.
Aravindh, S. Servottam, U. Waghmare, C. Vishnoi, K. Pramoda, U. Gupta, M. Chhetri, R. Balakrishna, C. Rao, K. Pramoda, A. Saraswat, R. Singh, P. Vishnoi, N. Sagar, A. Hezam, Superlattices of covalently cross-linked 2D materials for the hydrogen evolution reaction , APL Materials , 8 2 , Some of the books on materials written or edited by C.
Rao: 1. Preparation and Characterization of Materials , Academic Press Superconductivity Today , Universities Press Chemistry of Advanced Materials , Blackwell Colossal Magnetoresistance and related phenomena , World Scientific Nanotubes and Nanowires , Royal Soc. Of Chemistry, , Nanochemistry , Wiley-VCH Graphene and its fascinating properties , World Scientific Essentials of Inorganic Materials Synthesis, C.
Rao and K. Biswas, John Wiley, New York, Rao and U. Waghmare Eds , World Scientific , Rao Eds. Glimpses of the Nanoworld PDF IT EN. Ordinary Academicians Werner Arber. Frances Hamilton Arnold. Vanderlei S. David Baltimore.
Antonio Battro. David Baulcombe. Paul Berg. Enrico Berti. Robert Eric Betzig. Helen M. Thierry Boon-Falleur. Joachim von Braun. Emmanuelle Charpentier.
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