• #OnThisDay Meet the scientist Marie and Pierre Curie!. On this day they announced the discovery of radium, a chemical element naturally found in uranium ores and, to a lesser extent, thorium ores.
  • #MerryChristmas May this year be more promising than the year before! Spread the happiness all around you!
  • #OnThisDay Meet the scientist John H. Lawrence!. He was an American physicist and physician best known for pioneering the field of nuclear medicine.
  • By 1945, Sarabhai returned to Cambridge University to further continue his research on Cosmic Rays and received a Ph.D. DEGREE for his thesis, ‘Cosmic Ray Investigations in Tropical Latitudes’ in 1947.
  • #OnThisDay Experimental Breeder Reactor I (EBR-I) is a decommissioned research reactor and U.S. National Historic Landmark located in the desert about 18 miles (29 km) southeast of Arco, Idaho.
  • Dr.Vikram Sarabhai’s FIRST SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH PAPER, ‘Time Distribution of Cosmic Rays’ was published in the “Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Science” in 1942.
  • #DoYouKnow Nuclear power accounted for about 10% of total electricity production in 2018, across the globe.
  • Dr. Vikram Sarabhai returned to India and joined the Indian Institute of Science, in Bangalore (Bengaluru) Where he continued to carry out his experiments on 'Time Variation of Cosmic Rays’
  • #OnThisDay Meet the scientist Henry Way Kendall. A physicist who discovered experimental evidence of quarks. Quarks are elementary particles which, when combined, make up larger particles such as protons and neutrons.
  • #OnThisDay Meet the scientist Richard Brooke Roberts!! The American biophysicist whose work in delayed neutrons made nuclear reactors a practical reality.

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