Professor Robert W. Cahn (MA, PhD, ScD, FIM, FInstP, FRSA, Fellow of the Royal Society; Fellow, TMS; Fellow, ASM; Foreign member of the Göttingen Academy; Member of Academia Europaea; Foreign member of Royal Spanish Academy of Sciences; Chinese Academy of Sciences (and honorary professor, CAS Shenyang), Indian National Science Academy)

2005 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.T. Liu ◽  
Y. Mishima ◽  
D.G. Morris ◽  
G. Sauthoff ◽  
R. Yang
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Indian National Science Academy ◽  
Chinese Academy Of Sciences ◽  
National Science ◽  
Science Academy ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Foreign Member

Blackett Memorial Lecture, 1978. Fundamental research in India in the area of the physical sciences

1979 ◽  
Vol 365 (1721) ◽  
pp. 145-160
Keyword(s):  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Cosmic Radiation ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
Physical Sciences ◽  
Indian National Science Academy ◽  
National Science ◽  
Fundamental Research ◽  
Science Academy

I consider it a great honour and privilege to have been invited to deliver the second Blackett Memorial Lecture organized under the joint sponsorship of the Royal Society and the Indian National Science Academy. I would like to express at the outset my gratitude to both Societies for providing me with this unique opportunity. It so happens that I have spent the last three decades of my life doing research in the field of cosmic radiation, a good fraction of which has been done with cloud chambers. Because of both these reasons, as you can easily imagine, I have been to a great extent personally influenced and inspired by P. M. S. (Lord) Blackett, whose pioneering and outstanding contributions in the field of cosmic radiation with counter controlled cloud chambers which brought him the Nobel Prize in 1948, are well known.

Essay Review: A Leader of Indian science

1991 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-113
Keyword(s):  
Essay Review ◽  
Indian Academy ◽  
Indian National Science Academy ◽  
Indian Science ◽  
National Science ◽  
Science Academy ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

G. Venkataraman, Journey into light: life and science V. Raman . Indian Academy of Sciences in cooperation with Indian National Science Academy, 1988. Pp. xiv + 570. ISBN 81-85324-00-X The Indian Academy of Sciences and the National Science Academy jointly decided to honour the memory of Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman in 1988 on the centenary of his birth. The result is a detailed biography of Raman by Professor Venkataraman.

Otto Meyerhof, 1884 - 1951

1954 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 174-200 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Artistic Development ◽  
School Life ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Long Period ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Foreign Member

Otto Meyerhof was born on 12 April 1884 in Berlin and died in Philadelphia on 6 October 1951 at the age of 67; he was the son of Felix Meyerhof, who was born in 1849 at Hildesheim, and Bettina Meyerhof, nee May, born in 1862 in Hamburg; both his father and grandfather had been in business. An elder sister and two younger brothers died long before him. In 1923 he shared the Nobel prize for Physiology (for 1922) with A. V. Hill. He received an Hon. D.C.L. in 1926 from the University of Edinburgh, was a Foreign Member (1937) of the Royal Society of London, an Hon. Member of the Harvey Society and of Sigma XI. In 1944 he was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A. Otto Meyerhof went through his school life up to the age of 14 without delay, but there is no record that he was then brilliant. When he was 16 he developed some kidney trouble, which caused a long period of rest in bed. This period of seclusion seems to have been responsible for a great mental and artistic development. Reading constantly he matured perceptibly, and in the autumn of 1900 was sent to Egypt on the doctor’s advice for recuperation.

scholarly journals Deciphering the origin of flowering plants

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 560-563
Author(s):  
By Ling Wang
Keyword(s):  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Flowering Plants ◽  
Evolutionary Origin ◽  
Vertebrate Paleontology ◽  
Angiosperm Evolution ◽  
Early Diversification ◽  
Chinese Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Foreign Member

Abstract Colorful flowers decorate our planet with their appealing forms, yet their enigmatic evolutionary origin and rapid early diversification have been regarded as the ‘Goldbach conjecture’ of paleobotany. Else Marie Friis is a prominent professor who in 1981 was the first to identify the small angiosperm flowers that changed our perception of ancestral flowers and opened up a new direction in the study of angiosperm evolution. As a foreign member of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Professor Friis helps strengthen the scholarly communication and cooperation between China and Europe, especially in paleobotany. NSR got the chance to talk to Professor Friis about her research and developments in this field during her last visit to China. Professor Zhonghe Zhou, a paleontologist at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, CAS, joined the interview.

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