Stroke of genius
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February 23, 2021 02:51 IST
Ninety-three years ago, on February 28, a brilliant discovery put India on the map of world science a day we celebrate as National Science Day.
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Ninety-three years ago, on February 28, a brilliant discovery put India on the map of world science a day we celebrate as National Science Day.
A curious question or a sudden stroke of inspiration sometimes this is all it takes to spark a path-breaking discovery. For the first Asian (and Indian) recipient of a Nobel Prize in science, it was a long journey by sea.
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Mahendralal was a patriot and a nationalist. His dream was to establish a research institute similar to the Royal Society of London where the Indians could do research in basic science. Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
By training, Mahendralal Sircar was an allopath. He passed the MD examination from the Calcutta University in 1859 and very soon established himself as a leading allopath in the city. Though initially, Dr Sircar used to criticize homoeopathy severely, yet in the later years, he became interested in the field. He gave up allopathy and embraced homoeopathy for the rest of his life. His patients included Sri Ramkrishna Paramhansa, the master of Swami Vivekananda.