by David Farrell
‘Chandra’, as he was affectionately called by his friends, was born in 1928 in a small town in India. After receiving physics instruction from his father, plus bachelor and master degrees from universities in India, he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford. In that year, 1949, he was the only Indian student to be so honored.
In 1955, his academic career took an unusual direction for an Oxford PhD, namely, he joined the Westinghouse Electric Corporation’s research lab in Pittsburgh. As he later admitted…. “I wondered how I, a pure physicist, would fare in the...
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