tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818962.post7303460978471513465..comments2024-03-20T13:10:11.477+05:30Comments on nanopolitan: Venki in IndiaAbihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06790560045313883673noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818962.post-11290454620256410102009-12-25T11:26:16.173+05:302009-12-25T11:26:16.173+05:30The Telegraph's G.C.Shekhar finds it worth not...The Telegraph's G.C.Shekhar finds it worth noting that Dr. Ramakrishnan chose to walk to the auditorium -- some of us can't help rolling our eyes when the big bosses of Indian science require a car for such things. Or more generally expect people to be on attention for their littlest needs.Hutomhttp://calcuttachronicles.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818962.post-35419739249901450072009-12-25T00:37:51.669+05:302009-12-25T00:37:51.669+05:30I loved the "drama queens Watson and Crick&qu...I loved the "drama queens Watson and Crick"! :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818962.post-81674064791690659682009-12-24T19:38:33.474+05:302009-12-24T19:38:33.474+05:30Yeti,
I am not sure many get VR's point. He ...Yeti,<br /><br />I am not sure many get VR's point. He says that science is hard, not necessarily for everyone, takes years, and is not about Nobels. All that a country can do is to support science in different ways at different times of a scientist's career and allow institutions to develop. He claims no expertise in managing scientific institutions and repeats every time, when asked, that there is some very good work being done in India by some very good scientists. He refuses to engage in any discussion of the management of science education and research in India merely on the grounds of having become a Nobel Laureate. If India had no time to ask him these questions as recently as a year ago, while he has been visiting India unfailingly for several years, there is no reason for him to discuss that now.trutihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06313354254836558451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818962.post-26682272887807360062009-12-24T19:31:09.249+05:302009-12-24T19:31:09.249+05:30Every report about Venki amazes me. Also reminds m...Every report about Venki amazes me. Also reminds me of my days with the University.<br /><br />Shastri Philip<br />www.ShastriPhilip.ComDr. Johnson C. Philiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10836988406358120241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818962.post-64024832224835313592009-12-24T13:55:35.599+05:302009-12-24T13:55:35.599+05:30Btw I have an idea for how Venki can help. Some I...Btw I have an idea for how Venki can help. Some Indian student/researcher should be able to write up a joint proposal which if it clears the peer review comittee should lead to beam time access on those large light source facilities that VR uses for his research.Yetinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818962.post-38496808795409116052009-12-24T13:23:49.078+05:302009-12-24T13:23:49.078+05:30I like some of VR comments on "helping" ...I like some of VR comments on "helping" Indian science. The best he can do (besides teaching and collaborative work) is to make an assessment of Indian facilities vis-a-vis the infrastructure that he used throughout his research career. No doubt instruments without creativity/hard-work doesn't lead anywhere but such as assessment will help in clarifying as to what needs to be done to on the non-human/mentoring/politics side to get the same specific results in that field.<br />In particular would VR have been as productive without these large facilities -<br />http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/pr/PR_display.asp?prID=1014<br />http://www.lightsources.org/cms/?pid=1003767Yetinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818962.post-16001449550688118902009-12-24T00:43:32.257+05:302009-12-24T00:43:32.257+05:30Dr.Ramakrishnan's must have chosen to wear boo...Dr.Ramakrishnan's must have chosen to wear boots of lead, maybe why his feet are so firmly planted on earth. There hasn't been such a graceful and modest Nobel Laureate in years with the exception of Prof.Yves Chauvin (Chemistry 2005 for metathesis)<br />I am glad VR paid homage to the great GNR who first successfully battled the drama queens Watson and Crick over the structure of collagen and then fought a losing battle with the "rationalist" mavens of the DMK in the early 70s when they managed to shut down his lab and drive him out of Madras into the arms of the IISc<br /><br />VR isn't saying much Consider these facts He graduated with a three year BS in physics at 19 and was done with his PhD by 23! The highly pedigree obsessed science community in the US kept him out of tenure track positions for years and even now can't bring themselves to commend him High profile science bloggers like Larry Moran (sandwalk.blogspot.com; Princeton PhD and U.Toronto Professor) haven't written about VR yet although they unfailingly write about Nobel Laureates all the time VR is a class act and has always stood by the institutions that have supported him unlike some other notables who are given the ladder they have climbed up on VR has lectured regularly at Ohio University for a long timetrutihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06313354254836558451noreply@blogger.com