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Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, the Glossary

The Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) is a multidisciplinary research institute located at Jakkur, Bangalore, India.^[1]

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1989 establishments in Karnataka
BSL3 laboratories in India
Deemed universities in Karnataka
Science education in India

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (The Academy) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States.

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American Physical Society

The American Physical Society (APS) is a not-for-profit membership organization of professionals in physics and related disciplines, comprising nearly fifty divisions, sections, and other units.

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Amitabh Joshi

Amitabh Joshi (born 1965) is an Indian evolutionary biologist, population ecologist, geneticist and a professor at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR).

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Anthony Cheetham

Sir Anthony Kevin Cheetham (born 16 November 1946) is a British materials scientist.

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Arcot Ramachandran (1923-2018) was an Indian scientist, anthropologist, author and a former Under-Secretary General of United Nations Centre for Human Settlements, known for his scholarship on the subjects of heat and mass transfer and environment and his social commitment to the cause of sustainable development.

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Ashok Sekhar Ganguly

Ashok Shekar Ganguly is an Indian industry expert and former chairman of Hindustan Lever, was a nominated member of the Rajya Sabha.

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Balasubramanian Sundaram

Balasubramanian Sundaram is an Indian chemist.

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Bangalore

Bangalore, officially Bengaluru (ISO: Beṁgaḷūru), is the capital and largest city of the southern Indian state of Karnataka.

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Bharat Ratna

The Bharat Ratna (Jewel of India) is the highest civilian award of the Republic of India.

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Biocon

Biocon Limited is an Indian biopharmaceutical company based in Bangalore.

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Bose Institute

Bose Institute (or Basu Bigyan Mandir) is a premier public research institute of India and also one of its oldest. Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research and Bose Institute are multidisciplinary research institutes.

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C. N. R. Rao

Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao, (born 30 June 1934), is an Indian chemist who has worked mainly in solid-state and structural chemistry.

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Central Drug Research Institute

Central Drug Research Institute is a multidisciplinary research laboratory in Lucknow, India, employing scientific personnel from various areas of biomedical sciences.

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Charles Correa

Charles Mark Correa (1 September 1930 – 16 June 2015) was an Indian architect and urban planner. Credited with the creation of modern architecture in post-Independent India, he was celebrated for his sensitivity to the needs of the urban poor and for his use of traditional methods and materials.

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Chidambaram Subramaniam

Chidambaram Subramaniam (commonly known as CS) (30 January 1910 – 7 November 2000), was an Indian politician and independence activist.

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Genetics

Genetics is the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in organisms.

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Geodynamics

Geodynamics is a subfield of geophysics dealing with dynamics of the Earth.

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Government of India

The Government of India (IAST: Bhārat Sarkār, legally the Union Government or Union of India and colloquially known as the Central Government) is the central executive authority of the Republic of India, a federal republic located in South Asia, consisting of 28 states and eight union territories.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Indian Institute of Science

The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is a public, deemed, research university for higher education and research in science, engineering, design, and management. Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research and Indian Institute of Science are deemed universities in Karnataka and multidisciplinary research institutes.

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Infosys

Infosys Limited is an Indian multinational information technology company that provides business consulting, information technology and outsourcing services.

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Infosys Prize

The Infosys Prize is an annual award given to scientists, researchers, engineers and social scientists of Indian origin (not necessarily born in India) by the Infosys Science Foundation and ranks among the highest monetary awards in India to recognize research.

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Jawaharlal Nehru

Jawaharlal Nehru (14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist, secular humanist, social democrat, author and statesman who was a central figure in India during the middle of the 20th century.

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K. R. Narayanan

Kocheril Raman Narayanan (27 October 1920 – 9 November 2005) was an Indian statesman, diplomat, academic, and politician who served as the ninth vice president of India from 1992 to 1997 and tenth president of India from 1997 to 2002.

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Kapil Sibal

Kapil Sibal (born 8 August 1948) is an Indian lawyer and politician.

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Karnataka

Karnataka (ISO), also known colloquially as Karunāḍu, is a state in the southwestern region of India.

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Kaustuv Sanyal

Kaustuv Sanyal (born 1969) is an Indian molecular biologist, mycologist and a professor at the Molecular Biology and Genetics Unit of the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR).

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Khadg Singh Valdiya

Khadg Singh Valdiya (20 March 1937 – 29 September 2020) was an Indian geologist and a former vice chancellor of Kumaon University, internationally recognized for his path-breaking work in the fields of geodynamics and Environmental Science.

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Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (born 23 March 1953) is an Indian billionaire entrepreneur.

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Kolkata

Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta (its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal.

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List of deemed universities

Deemed university, or deemed-to-be-university, is an accreditation granted to higher educational institutions in India by the Department of Higher Education.

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M. R. S. Rao

Manchanahalli Rangaswamy Satyanarayana Rao (21 January 1948 – 13 August 2023) was an Indian scientist.

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M. S. Swaminathan

Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan (7 August 1925 – 28 September 2023) was an Indian agronomist, agricultural scientist, geneticist, administrator and humanitarian.

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Maneesha S. Inamdar

Professor Maneesha Inamdar is a stem cell and developmental biologist conducting research at Bangalore, India.

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Manmohan Singh

Manmohan Singh (born 26 September 1932) is an Indian retired politician, economist, academician and bureaucrat who served as the Prime Minister of India from 2004 to 2014.

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Michael L. Klein

Michael Lawrence Klein (born March 13, 1940, in London, England) is Laura H. Carnell Professor of Science and director of the Institute for Computational Molecular Science in the college of science and technology at Temple University in Philadelphia, US.

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Molecular biology

Molecular biology is a branch of biology that seeks to understand the molecular basis of biological activity in and between cells, including biomolecular synthesis, modification, mechanisms, and interactions.

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N. R. Narayana Murthy

Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy (born 20 August 1946) is an Indian billionaire businessman.

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Nature (journal)

Nature is a British weekly scientific journal founded and based in London, England.

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Neuroscience

Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system (the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system), its functions and disorders.

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Padma Bhushan

The Padma Bhushan is the third-highest civilian award in the Republic of India, preceded by the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan and followed by the Padma Shri.

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Padma Shri

The Padma Shri (IAST: padma śrī), also spelled Padma Shree, is the fourth-highest civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan.

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Padma Vibhushan

The Padma Vibhushan ("Lotus Decoration") is the second-highest civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna.

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President of India

The president of India (IAST) is the head of state of the Republic of India.

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Raja Ramanna

Raja Ramanna (28 January 1925 – 24 September 2004) was an Indian physicist.

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Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology

Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology is a research institute in India, exclusive devoted to research in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology.

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Rajya Sabha

The Rajya Sabha (lit: "States' Assembly"), also known as the Council of States, is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of India.

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Rama Govindarajan

Rama Govindarajan is an Indian scientist specialized in the field of fluid dynamics.

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Roddam Narasimha

Roddam Narasimha FRS (20 July 193314 December 2020) was an Indian aerospace scientist and fluid dynamicist.

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Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi

Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi (Saʿūd bin Ṣaqr al-Qāsimī; born 10 February 1956) is the current ruler of the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah, one of the seven emirates of the United Arab Emirates.

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Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology

The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (SSB) is a science award in India given annually by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for notable and outstanding research, applied or fundamental, in biology, chemistry, environmental science, engineering, mathematics, medicine, and physics.

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Shobhana Narasimhan

Shobhana Narasimhan is an Indian academic who is Professor of Theoretical Sciences at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research in Bangalore, India.

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Srikanth Sastry

Srikanth Sastry is an Indian physicist.

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Swapan Kumar Pati

Swapan Kumar Pati (born 1968) is an Indian quantum chemist, a professor of the department of chemistry at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research and the head of the Quantum Theory Molecules to Materials Group at the institute.

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Tapas Kumar Kundu

Tapas Kumar Kundu (born 2 January 1962) is an Indian molecular biologist, academician and at present the Director of Central Drug Research Institute, a prestigious research institute of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research at Lucknow.

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Tapas Kumar Maji

Tapas Kumar Maji is a professor in the Chemistry and Physics of Materials Unit at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bengaluru with research interests in topics related to porous materials, nanoscale metal-organic frameworks and composites and functional gel materials.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawaharlal_Nehru_Centre_for_Advanced_Scientific_Research

Also known as JNCASR, Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research.

, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, Shobhana Narasimhan, Srikanth Sastry, Swapan Kumar Pati, Tapas Kumar Kundu, Tapas Kumar Maji, Thimmaiah Govindaraju, Umesh Waghmare, V. Nagaraja, Venkaiah Naidu.

Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, the Glossary

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See also

1989 establishments in Karnataka

BSL3 laboratories in India

Deemed universities in Karnataka

Science education in India

References