Climbing the Limitless Ladder: A Life in Chemistry by C. N. R. Rao

Climbing the Limitless Ladder: A Life in Chemistry



Download Climbing the Limitless Ladder: A Life in Chemistry




Climbing the Limitless Ladder: A Life in Chemistry C. N. R. Rao
Language: English
Page: 233
Format: pdf
ISBN: 9814307858, 9789814307857
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

A Life in Chemistry is a unique book, the autobiography of a top-class scientist who, quite unusually, is still very active at the age of 76. The book is not only absorbing but also entertaining. --The Telegraph, Calcutta, India

This book presents an interesting personal voyage and seems to have been written, in part, to inspire young people to take up careers in science ... this is an absorbing autobiography of a man who has inspired many young chemists around the world as well as his beloved India. --Chemistry World C N R Rao is National Research Professor, Linus Pauling Research Professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) and honorary professor at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc). He was director of IISc and founding President of JNCASR. C N R Rao is an author of 1,400 research papers and has written or edited 43 books dealing with spectroscopy, solid state and materials chemistry, superconductivity, nanomaterials and related topics. He has received 48 honorary doctorate degrees from Indian and foreign universities including Purdue, Oxford, Uppsala, Northwestern, Novosibirsk, Bordeaux, Wales, Wrocław, Colorado and Liverpool. C N R Rao has received numerous prizes and medals of which mention must be made of the Marlow Medal of the Faraday Society (1967), Bhatnagar Prize (1968), Hevrovsky Gold Medal of the Czechoslovak Academy (1989), Albert Einstein Gold Medal of UNESCO (1996), Centenary Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry, London (2000), Hughes Medal (2000) as well as the Royal Medal (2009) of the Royal Society (London), and Nikkei Prize (2008). The August-Wilhelm-von-Hoffmann Medal (2010) has just been conferred to him by the German Chemical Society. The President of India conferred Padma Shri (1974) and Padma Vibhushan (1985) on C N R Rao. He has been President of the science academies in India, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry and of the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), and is the chairman of the Science Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India. MORE EBOOKS:
Letters to Juliet: Celebrating Shakespeare's Greatest Heroine, the Magical City of Verona, and the Power of Love cheap book







Tags: Climbing the Limitless Ladder: A Life in Chemistry ebook pdf epub djvu mobi rar
Climbing the Limitless Ladder: A Life in Chemistry pdf epub djvu free download
Download Climbing the Limitless Ladder: A Life in Chemistry free ebook pdf epub
Climbing the Limitless Ladder: A Life in Chemistry read online free book
Climbing the Limitless Ladder: A Life in Chemistry cheap ebook for kindle and nook
C. N. R. Rao ebooks and audio books
Climbing the Limitless Ladder: A Life in Chemistry download pdf epub rar rapidshare mediafire fileserve 4shared torrent depositfiles scribd