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SEMINAR ON RECENT TRENDS IN

APPLIED PHYSICS

20-21, February, 2012

Department of Physics Dwaraka Doss Goverdhan Doss Vaishnav College

(Autonomous)

Arumbakkam, Chennai – 600 106

Vision Statement

To impart value based quality academia, to empower students with

wisdom and to charge them with rich Indian traditions and culture; to

invoke the self, to broaden the same towards Nation building, harmony

and Universal brotherhood.

Physicists Calendar 2012

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~ January 2012 ~ Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 S.N Bose (1894)

2 Clausius (1822)

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4 Josephson (1940)

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8 Stephen Hawking (1942)

9 Hargobind Khorana* (1922)

*Medicine

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13 Wien (1864) Rakesh Sharma (1949)

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15 Edward Teller (1908)

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17 Benjamin Franklin (1706) Ralph.H.Fowler (1889)

18 Paul Ehrenfest (1880)

19 James Watt (1736)

20 Andre Marie Ampere (1775)

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22 Lev Landau (1908)

23 Langevin (1872) Hideki Yukawa (1907)

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25 Robert Boyle (1627) Lagrange (1736)

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28 Raja Ramanna (1925)

29 Edward Morley (1838)

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31 Langmuir (1881) Mossbauer (1929)

There is nothing worth in this world that can come without the sweat of our brow. – Sir. C.V.Raman

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~ February 2012 ~ Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. - - Marie Curie

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2 Kramers (1894)

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4 Hund (1896)

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8 Daniel Bernoulli (1700)

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10 W.Brattain (1902)

11 Gibbs (1839) Thomas Alva Edison (1847)

12 Heinrich Lenz (1804)

13 William Shockley (1910)

14 Rees Wilson (1869)

15 Galileo Galilei (1564)

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18 Volta Allesandro (1745)

19 Nicolaus Copernicus (1473)

20 Ludwig Boltzmann (1844)

21 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (1894)

22 Peltier (1785) Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857)

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24 Pyotr Levedev (1866)

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26 Clapeyron (1799)

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28 Cooper (1930) Linus Pauling(1901) National

Science Day

29 An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. – Neils Bohr

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~ March 2012 ~ Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man. - Richard P. Feynman

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3 Alexander Graham Bell (1847)

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6 Fraunhofer (1787) Cornu (1841)

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8 Otto Hahn (1879)

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10 Kronig (1904)

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12 Gustav Kirchhoff (1824)

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14 Albert Einstein (1879)

15 Venturi (1746)

16 Robert Ohm (1789)

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18 Rudolf Diesel (1858)

19 Frederic Joliot (1900)

20 Fritz Pfleumer (1881)

21 Fourier (1768)

22 Robert Andrews Millikan (1868)

23 Pierre Simon Laplace (1749)

24 Joseph Stefan (1835)

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26 Sir Benjamin Thompson (1753)

27 Wilhem Roentgen (1845) Hartree (1897)

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30 Robert Bunsen (1811)

31 Robert Wilhem Bunsen (1811) William Lawrence Bragg (1890)

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~ April 2012 ~ Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

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4 Satyanarayan Gangaram Pitroda (1942)

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9 Seebeck (1770)

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14 Christiaan Huygens (1629)

15 Leonhard Euler (1707)

16 Wilbur Wright (1867)

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18 Foucault (1819)

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20 Forbes (1809)

21 Jean Baptiste Biot (1774)

22 Poiseuille (1797) Robert Oppenheimer (1904)

23 Max Planck (1858)

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25 Guglielmo Marconi (1874) Wolfgang Pauli (1900)

26 Richardson (1879)

27 Samuel Morse (1791)

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29 Karl Drais (1785) Poincare (1854)

30 Gauss (1777)

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people. - Sir Isaac Newton

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~ May 2012 ~ Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

God used beautiful Mathematics in creating the world. - Paul Dirac

1 Johann Jakob Balmer (1825)

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3 G.P.Thomson (1892)

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10 Fresnel (1788) Ising (1900)

11 Richard Feynman (1918)

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15 Pierre Curie (1859)

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21 Coriolis (1792)

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23 John Bardeen (1908)

24 Gilbert (1544) Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686)

25 Zeeman (1865)

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27 Kazimierz Fajans (1887)

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30 Hannes Alfven (1908)

31 Schrieffer (1931)

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

- Albert Einstein

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~ June 2012 ~ Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. Imagination decides everything. The heart has reasons that reason cannot know. - - Blaise Pascal

1 Sadi Carnot (1796)

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6 K.F.Braun (1850) Townsend (1868)

7 Lenard (1862)

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9 Wheeler (1911)

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11 Linde (1842)

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13 Thomas Young (1773) James Clerk Maxwell (1831)

14 Augustin Coloumb (1736) Nikolaus Otto (1832)

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17 Crookes (1832)

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19 Blaise Pascal (1623)

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21 Poisson (1781)

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24 Victor Hess (1883)

25 Nernst (1864)

26 Lord Kelvin (1824)

27 de Morgan (1806)

28 Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906) Weizsacker (1912)

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~ July 2012 ~ Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 Leibnitz (1646) Kalpana Chawla (1961)

2 William Henry Bragg (1862) Mylswami Annadurai (1958)

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4 Hans Bethe (1902)

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8 Pyotr Kapitsa (1894)

9 John Wheeler (1911)

10 Nicola Tesla (1856)

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14 George Green (1793)

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18 Lorentz (1853)

19 Jayanth Narlikar (1938)

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23 Schottky (1886)

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25 Rosalind Franklin (1920)

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27 Bainbridge (1904)

28 Robert Hooke (1635)

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It is not for man to complain of circumstances, but bravely to accept, to confront, and to dominate them.

- Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose

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~ August 2012 ~ Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

An equation means nothing to me unless it expresses a thought of God. -Srinivasa Ramanujan

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2 Tyndall (1820)

Prafulla Chandra Ray (1861)

3 Fitzgerald (1851)

4 Hamilton (1805)

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7 Brillouin (1889)

8 Paul Dirac (1902)

9 Amedeo Avagadro (1776) Fowler (1911) Alladi Ramakrishnan (1923)

10 M.K Vainnu Bappu (1927)

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12 Erwin Schrodinger (1887) Vikram Sarabhai (1919)

13 Angstrom (1814) Stokes (1819)

14 Oersted (1777) Dempster (1886)

15 de Broglie (1892)

16 Lippmann (1845)

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19 Blaise Pascal (1623)

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23 Osborn Reynolds (1842)

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26 Antoine Lavoisier (1743) Franck (1882)

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30 Ernest Rutherford (1871)

31 Helmholtz (1821)

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~ September 2012 ~ Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

- A.P.J.Abdul Kalam

1 Francis William Aston (1877)

2 Frederick Soddy (1877)

3 Carl David Anderson (1905)

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6 John Dalton (1766)

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9 Galvani(1737) Poynting (1852)

10 Yelavarthy Nayudamma (1922) Compton (1892)

11 Jeans (1877)

12 Irene Curie (1897)

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15 M.Visvesvaraya (1860) Gell-Mann (1929) Klien (1894)

16 ECG Sudharshan (1931)

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20 Dewar (1842)

21 Kammerling Onnes (1853)

22 Michael Faraday (1791)

23 Fizeau (1819)

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29 Enrico Fermi (1901)

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There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge. – Enrico Fermi

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~ October 2012 ~ Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

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6 Meghnad Saha (1893)

7 Neils Henrik Bohr (1885)

8 G.N.Ramachandran (1922) Le Chatelier (1850)

9 von Laue (1879)

10 Henry Cavendish (1731)

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15 A.P.J Abdul Kalam (1931) Toricelli (1608)

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18 Jordan (1902)

19 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910)

20 Chadwick (1891)

21 Alfred Nobel (1833)

22 Davisson (1881)

23 Gilbert.N. Lewis (1875) Bloch (1905) Weber(1804)

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30 Homi Jehangir Bhabha (1909)

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I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

- Stephen Hawking

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~ November 2012 ~ Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. Doubt is the father of invention.

- Galileo Galilei

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3 Daniel Rutherford (1749)

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7 Sir. C.V Raman (1888) Marie Curie (1867)

8 Rydberg (1854)

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10 International Science day for Peace and Development

11 Anil Kakodar (1943)

12 Lord Rayleigh (1842)

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17 Wigner (1902)

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20 Hubble (1889)

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23 Moseley (1887) van der Waals (1837)

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26 Yash Pal (1926)

27 Anders Celcius (1701)

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29 Doppler (1803)

30 Acharya Sir.J.C Bose (1858)

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~ December 2012 ~ Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

Physics is my line. I know I shall do great things here. It is absolutely in the interest of India to have a vigorous school of research in fundamental Physics, for such a school forms the spearhead of research not only in less advanced branches of Physics but also in problems of immediate practical application in industry. - Homi Jehangir Bhabha

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4 Sir.K.S. Krishnan (1898)

5 Sommerfeld (1868) Werner Heinsberg (1901) Powell (1903)

6 Joseph Gay-Lussac (1778)

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11 Max Born (1882)

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14 Tycho Brahe (1546)

15 Henry Becquerel (1852) Stark (1874)

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17 Joseph Henry (1797)

18 J.J.Thomson (1856)

19 Michelson (1852)

20 David Bohm (1917)

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22 Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887) Fock (1898) John.C.Slater (1900)

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24 James Prescott Joule (1818)

25 Issac Newton (1842)

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27 Johannes Kepler (1571)

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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication. – Michael Faraday