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B V Sreekantan - Visiting Professor
School of Humanities
Research Interests:
Cosmic Rays; High Energy Physics;
High Energy Astronomy (170 publications);
and Philosophy of Science-Consciousness Studies
Telephone : 91-80-22185082
Fax:
91-80-22185028
Email: bvsreek@math.tifr.res.in , bvs@nias.iisc.ernet.in |
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Qualifications: M.Sc. Ph.D.
Career:
Research Scientist, TIFR Mumbai; 1948-1992
Director, TIFR; 1975-87
Srinivasa Ramanujan Professor,TIFR; 1987-92
Radhakrishnan Visiting Professor, NIAS; 1992-94
Senior Homi Bhabha Fellow,NIAS; 1994-96
Radhakrishnan Visiting Professor, NIAS; 1996-
Visiting Scientist, MIT; 1954-55, 1965-67, 1973-74
Consultant, University of Maryland; 1965-66
Visiting Professor, Tokyo; 1978 and 1985
Research Interests:
Cosmic Rays; High Energy Physics;
High Energy Astronomy (170 publications);
and Philosophy of Science-Consciousness Studies
Selected Publications:
| Books |
| Sreekantan,
B V (2001). Philosophy of Science: At the End of
Twentieth Century. Gandhi Centre of Human Science and Values, Bharatiya Vidya
Bhavan,Bangalore. |
| Rao, M.V.S and Sreekantan,
B V (1998).Extensive Air Showers. World Scientific.
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| Papers |
| Sreekantan, B V (2002). A
Century of cosmic ray research In: Frontiers in Astrophysics. Vol 2 (S P
Sen Gupta and S K Chakrabarti, eds.). New Delhi: Allied Publishers Pvt Ltd, 2002. pp
42-67. |
| Sreekantan, B V (2002). Historical
aspects of gamma ray astronomy. Bulletin of the Astronomical Society of India 30: 5-10 |
| B V Sreekantan (2002). Transcendences in physics and their
implications to consciousness. In: Science and
Metaphysics: A Discussion on Consciousness and Genetics (eds S Menon, A Sinha and B V Sreekantan).
Bangalore: National Institute of Advanced Studies. pp. 403-414 |
| NIAS Publications |
| Menon, S, Sinha, A and Sreekantan, B
V (eds.)(2002). Science and metaphysics: a discussion on
consciousness and genetics. SP10-02 |
| Menon, S, Narasimhan, M G, Sinha, A and Sreekantan,
B V (eds.)(1999). Scientific and philosophical studies on
consciousness. SP5-99 |
| Sreekantan, B V (1999). Scientific
explanations and consciousness. R7-99 |
| Sreekantan, B V (1998). The
cosmic ray story. R4-98 |
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