Kolkata – City of Knowledge
Bose Institute: In
its pursuit of advancing knowledge in science and technology,
has served the nation for the last 75 years by producing
skilled scientific manpower needed by the country for
its development.
Indian Association for the
Cultivation of Science: Oldest (established in
1876) institute in India devoted to the pursuit of fundamental
research in the basic sciences. It is here that Prof.
C V Raman discovered the ‘Raman Effect’ for
which he was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930.
Indian Statistical Institute:
A unique institution devoted to the research,
teaching and application of statistics, natural sciences
and social sciences. Founded by Professor P.C. Mahalanobis
in Kolkata in 1931, the institute gained the status of
an Institution of National Importance by an Act of Parliament
in 1959.
Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics:
Founded as the Institute of Nuclear Physics by Prof. Meghnad
Saha, this is one of the Pioneering Research Institutes
in fundamental Physics and allied disciplines. It is involved
in basic research in a number of areas of theoretical
and experimental Physics.
Indian Institute of Chemical
Biology: Premiere institute engaged in research
in biological sciences. Seeks solutions to medical and
biological problems faced by the country and utilizes
the results for biotechnological and biomedical applications.
Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre:
A research and development unit under the Department of
Atomic Energy. The 224 cm. giant Cyclotron, the first
of its kind in India, was built in 1977. The VECC machine
provides proton, deuteron and alpha particle beams of
various energies to various national institutions that
utilise it for research.
Central Glass & Ceramic
Research Institute: Involved in fundamental and
applied research in the fields of glass, ceramics, refractories,
vitreous enamels, composites and allied materials. Develops
appropriate technologies relevant to the country's defence,
economic, industrial, and social needs.
Mining, Geological and Metallurgical
Institute of India: The oldest institute of its kind in
Asia.
They made Bengal proud...
Rabindranath Tagore:
First Nobel Laureate from India. Received a Nobel for
Literature in 1913, especially for his collection of poetry,
Gitanjali (1912).
Mother Teresa: Nobel
Laureate for Peace.
C. V. Raman: Received
worldwide recognition for his work in optics and scattering
of light during his tenure as Professor of Physics at
Calcutta University, where he taught for fifteen years.
In 1930, for the first time in its history, an Indian
scholar, educated entirely in India received the highest
honour in science, the Nobel Prize in Physics.
Dr.Ronald Ross: Discovered
the manner in which malaria is conveyed by mosquitoes
in 1898 while Surgeon Major at Presidency General Hospital
in Kolkata, now SSKM Hospital. Bestowed the Nobel for
Medicine in 1902.
Amartya Sen: Initial
education at Shantiniketan, the school established by
Rabindranath Tagore, and then Presidency College, Kolkata.
Became an honorary fellow of Trinity in 1991 and its Master
in 1998. Won the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics.
Jagadish Chandra Bose:
Professor of physics at Presidency College, Bose gave
his first public demonstration of electro - magnetic waves,
using them to ring a bell remotely and to explode some
gunpowder, much before Marconi’s invention of the
radio. Also the first to prove that plants have life.
