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Chemistry and Chemical Techniques in India
BALDEV
RAJ is
Director, Metallurgy and Materials Group, Indira Gandhi Centre for
Atomic Research, Kalpakkam (near Chennai). He has specialized in
characterization non-destructive evaluation methodologies. He has
authored five books and published more than three hundred papers in this
field. He is a member of several national and international professional
academies and societies and Founder Member of Asia-Pacific Academy of
Materials. V.N.
Mishra is
Director of the Deccan College postgraduate and research Institute,
Pune which is deemed to be a University. He has been engaged in
archaeological and ethnographic research for the last forty years. He has
excavated pre-historic sites of Tilwara, Bagor and Didwana in Rajasthan
and Bhimbetka and Samnapur in Madhya Pradesh. For the last five years he
is directing excavations at the Chalcolithic site of Balathal in Udaipur
District of Rajasthan. Professor Mishra has authored / edited six books
and published over a hundred research papers. He is associated in
various capacities with a number of national and international academic
organizations and reputed journals. A.V.
NARASHIMHA MURTHY has
specialized in Indian numismatics and is the author of three books,
which are well known in this field. He has published about fifty
research papers in learned journals and edited six volumes of the Journal
of the Numismatic Society of India. He was formerly the Head of the
Department of Ancient History and Archaeology in the University of
Mysore,
and now a UGC Emeritus Fellow there. He is the Chairman of the
Numismatics Society, Varanasi and General Secretary of South Indian
Numismatics Society, Chennai. C.
RAJAGOPALAN after
his Masters Degree in physics, joined the Training School of Bhabha
Atomic Research Institute, Mumbai and since 1987, has been with the
Metallurgy and Materials group of the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic
Research, Kalpakkam (near Chennai). He is currently working towards the
application of Digital Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence
techniques for improving the sensitivities of defect detection and in
automating decision making, in the field of Non-destructive Testing. K.V.
SOUNDARA RAJAN
former
Additional Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India, is
among the noted archaeologists and art-historians of our country. He has
to his credit several excavations of sites from the Harappan to the
early historic period. He is well known for his deep Sanskrit learning,
Agamic lore and epigraphy and has published about twenty books on
special areas like prehistory and post-history, megalithic culture, temple
architecture and iconography, besides about four hundred research
papers. He is the recipient of the State award for outstanding field
studies in Karnataka and a Member of the Consultative Committee of
UNESCO Project on the port-cities of the Indian Ocean region. MIRA
ROY
is
retired Keeper of the Sanskrit Manuscript section in the University of
Calcutta. A former Senior Research Fellow (History of Science), Indian
National Science Academy and Indian Council of Agricultural Research,
she has worked in different fields of History of Sciences in India, and
has to her credit a number of articles published in learned journals and
three books. She is at present a Research Associate under PHISPC. S.
SUBBARAMAN is
Director, INTACH Chitrakala Parishath Art Conservation Centre,
Bangalore. After obtaining his training in the restoration of works of
art in the Central Institute of Art Restoration (Rome) and the
Conservation of Antiquities in British Museum Research Laboratory
(London), he served in Chemistry branch of the Archeological Survey of
India. He has done extensive conservation of monuments including those
of Ajanta, Ellora and Thanjavur as well as those in Afghanistan and
Cambodia. The Techniques developed by him for the separation of old
mural paintings, has attracted international attention. B.V.
SUBBARAYAPPA, the
Editor of this volume, was formerly Executive Secretary, Indian National
Science Academy, New Delhi and Member Secretary of the National
Commission for the History of Science in India. He is an Editorial
Fellow of PHISPC and Honorary Director of the Centre for History and
Philosophy of Science at the Indian Institute of
World Culture, Bangalore. He has edited / authored about twelve
books on History of Science in India and published over seventy research
papers. He is now an elected President of the Science Division of the
International Union of History and Philosophy of Science (related to
UNESCO), besides being an elected Member of the International Academy of
History of Science, Paris. A.
SUNDARA is
now Director of the Post-Graduate Research Centre of the Karnataka
University at Bijapur. He was formerly Professor and Head of the
Department of History and Archaeology of the Karnataka University,
Dharwad and Director, Karnataka State Department of Archaeology and
Museums. He is well known for his excavations of some prehistoric;
specially for megalithic sites in the Karnataka region. He is the author
of several books and has published many research papers in this field. C.V.
SUNDARAM is
a metallurgist, well known for his contribution to extractive
metallurgy of rare metals. He has a career long association with Indian
Atomic Energy Programme. He was the Head of the Metallurgy Division at
the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai during 1975-82 and the
Director of the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam
during 1981-82 and the President of the India Nuclear Society during
1991-93. Since 1991 he has been Visiting Professor at the National
Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore. |
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