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Author(s): Singh R (Singh, Rajinder)
Title: India's physics and chemistry Nobel prize nominators and nominees in colonial and international context
Source: NOTES AND RECORDS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY 61 (3): 333-345
Date: 2007 SEP 22
Document Type: Journal : Article
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Language: English
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Address: Carl von Ossietzky Univ Oldenburg, Inst Phys, Fac V, Dept Energy & Semi Conductor Phys, D-26111 Oldenburg, Germany.
Reprint: Singh, R, Carl von Ossietzky Univ Oldenburg, Inst Phys, Fac V, Dept
Energy & Semi Conductor Phys, D-26111 Oldenburg, Germany. E-mail: rajinder.singh@mail.uni-oldenburg.de
Author Keywords: Nobel prize; C. V. Raman; M. N. Saha; H. J. Bhabha; N. R. Dhar; P. C.
Ray
KeyWords Plus: RAMAN,C.V.
Abstract: In India the development of modern science is closely related to its colonial background, a subject well documented by historians. So far as the prestigious Nobel Prizes are concerned, little has been mentioned in the colonial context. This article shows that in the first half of the twentieth century only a few Indian physicists and chemists were either nominees or nominators. Some of them were Fellows of the Royal Society. A comparison of Indian Nobel Prize nominators and nominees with other so-called Third World countries and colonies suggests some interesting results, for example the similarities of development of physics and chemistry in the colonized and ruling countries. The present article also suggests that the election of the Fellows of the Royal Society from India, in the fields of physics and chemistry, reveals a pattern comparable with that of Nobel Prize nominations and nominees.
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