Roots and Development of Particle Physics in India

Dr. Sreerup Raychaudhuri is an elementary particle physicist with expertise in the theory of electroweak interactions, especially in the context of colliding-beam machines. He obtained his doctoral degree from the University of Calcutta in 1994 and followed this up by postdoctoral stints at TIFR and CERN. In 1999, he joined the faculty at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, where he taught till 2007. Subsequently, he moved to the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, where he is now a professor in the Department of Theoretical Physics. Apart from his research and teaching, Dr. Raychaudhuri has an enduring interest in history and, in particular, the history of Indian science. He has authored several articles on popular science and the history of science and lectured extensively on these subjects.

• Chapter 1 - Western Science in India.- Chapter 2 - Radioactivity and the Nucleus.- Chapter 3 - Particle Physics Begins in India.- Chapter 4 - Homi Bhabha at Cambridge.- Chapter 5 - The Experiments at Sandakphu.- Chapter 6 - The Growth of Cosmic Ray Research.- Chapter 7 - The Kolar Experiments.- Chapter 8 - P.S. Gill and the Aligarh Group.- Chapter 9 - Particle Physics at Delhi and Madras.- Chapter 10 - Some Observations and Reflections.