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Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata
Also known as IACS
The Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS) at Jadavpur, Calcutta, founded in 1876 by Mahendra Lal Sarkar as the first Indian-run research society modelled on the Royal Institution. It was in the IACS physics laboratory on Bowbazar Street, between 1917 and 1933, that C. V. Raman carried out the mercury-arc scattering experiments that showed the frequency shift now called the Raman effect — work for which he received the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics, India's first in a scientific discipline. IACS became an autonomous institute under DST in 1986 and runs 11 research schools in the physical and chemical sciences.
- Periods
- British Colonial Age, Republic and Living Practice
- Function
- Learning & scholarship
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 22.534, 88.363
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- Worked atC. V. Raman
At the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science laboratory on Bowbazar Street, Calcutta, in February 1928, C. V. Raman and K. S. Krishnan isolated the vibrational frequency shift in scattered light that bears his name. The experiment used sunlight, a quartz spectrograph and a liquid cell; it won him the 1930 Nobel Prize, the first in a science awarded to any Indian.
- Worked atMeghnad Saha
Meghnad Saha was based at Allahabad and Calcutta; founded the Institute of Nuclear Physics (now Saha Institute) in Calcutta in 1950.
- Site withinKolkata
The Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science at Jadavpur, in the southern suburbs of Kolkata, was founded in 1876 by Mahendra Lal Sarkar as the first Indian-run research society. The current campus — library, 11 schools, physics and chemistry wings — is on 203 Bowbazar / Anushakti Nagar in the Jadavpur neighbourhood of the city.
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