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There are some CNR clones. Prof D D Sharma in chemistry, Prof Ajay Sood in Physics are doing good work. Let’s see many more may come from the younger lot.

— C. N. Ramachandra Rao Scientist wonders why nobody asks him about Dan David prize (2013)

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The only part of the early concept of the elements that has survived is that elements have distinctive properties.

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It is only since 1911 that we know that atoms contain negatively charged electrons and positively charged nuclei.

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Philosophers of ancient Greece and India sought an answer to this question [What is matter made of] centuries before Christ.

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An element is a substance which cannot be further reduced to a simpler substance by ordinary processes, and is made up of particles of one kind only.

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My hero is Nobel Laureate Neville Mott who published four papers at the age of 92 when he died.

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