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1963 Nov 16 D-2004-01230-29(1 of 1) TIFR to PKM offer.pdf
PK Maitra's offer letter to join TIFR as the second faculty member of the molecular biology unit after Obaid Siddiqi. 1963.
1963 PK Maitra TIFR Joining Application - Pic.jpg
The registration sheet for PK Maitra at TIFR, filled at the time he joined as a young faculty member in the molecular biology unity at TIFR. 1963.
1964 CSIR Annual Report - NBL Palampur mention.png
An extract from the 1964 CSIR Annual Report, where the new National Biological Laboratory in Palampur finds a mention. The laboratory never materialized, partly because of a disagreement on the location. But that has not stopped it from being…
1965 Apr OS to McMillan book 24-7 work.jpg
Within a year of his PhD, when Obaid Siddiqi was at Yale in 1962, he received a book contract offer from McMillan, "Introduction to Molecular Genetics". These nine extracts give a glimpse of the events over the next three years. This was also a time…
1965 Dec McMillan OS Book Review - Anonymous.jpg
Within a year of his PhD, when Obaid Siddiqi was at Yale in 1962, he received a book contract offer from McMillan, "Introduction to Molecular Genetics". These nine extracts give a glimpse of the events over the next three years. This was also a time…
1965 Dec McMillan to OS - Book Review 2a.jpg
Within a year of his PhD, when Obaid Siddiqi was at Yale in 1962, he received a book contract offer from McMillan, "Introduction to Molecular Genetics". These nine extracts give a glimpse of the events over the next three years. This was also a time…
1965 Dec OS to McMillan - Book Review 2b - 1 of 2.jpg
Within a year of his PhD, when Obaid Siddiqi was at Yale in 1962, he received a book contract offer from McMillan, "Introduction to Molecular Genetics". These nine extracts give a glimpse of the events over the next three years. This was also a time…
1965 Dec OS to McMillan - Book Review 2b - 2 of 2.jpg
Within a year of his PhD, when Obaid Siddiqi was at Yale in 1962, he received a book contract offer from McMillan, "Introduction to Molecular Genetics". These nine extracts give a glimpse of the events over the next three years. This was also a time…
1965 Jul 15 D-2004-01230-35(1 - 4) OS to TIFR Animal Unit.pdf
Obaid Siddiqi's note to MGK Menon requesting for more space to build up the facilities required for research at the molecular biology unit. Also seen is a sketch of the proposed animal unit in July 1965.
1965 Jul 15 D-2004-01230-35(1 - 4) OS to TIFR Animal Unit.pdf
Obaid Siddiqi's note to MGK Menon requesting for more space to build up the facilities required for research at the molecular biology unit. Also seen is a sketch of the proposed animal unit in July 1965.
1965 Jul 15 D-2004-01230-35(1 - 4) OS to TIFR Animal Unit.pdf
Obaid Siddiqi's note to MGK Menon requesting for more space to build up the facilities required for research at the molecular biology unit. Also seen is a sketch of the proposed animal unit in July 1965.
1965 Jul 15 D-2004-01230-35(1 - 4) OS to TIFR Animal Unit.pdf
Obaid Siddiqi's note to MGK Menon requesting for more space to build up the facilities required for research at the molecular biology unit. Also seen is a sketch of the proposed animal unit in July 1965.
1965 McMillan to OS - Book Review 3a.jpg
Within a year of his PhD, when Obaid Siddiqi was at Yale in 1962, he received a book contract offer from McMillan, "Introduction to Molecular Genetics". These nine extracts give a glimpse of the events over the next three years. This was also a time…
1965 McMillan to OS - Book Review 3a.jpg
Within a year of his PhD, when Obaid Siddiqi was at Yale in 1962, he received a book contract offer from McMillan, "Introduction to Molecular Genetics". These nine extracts give a glimpse of the events over the next three years. This was also a time…
1965 Oct McMillan to OS Book manuscript acceptance.jpg
Within a year of his PhD, when Obaid Siddiqi was at Yale in 1962, he received a book contract offer from McMillan, "Introduction to Molecular Genetics". These nine extracts give a glimpse of the events over the next three years. This was also a time…
1966 Aug 14 D-2004-01230-42(1 - 2) OS to MGK pace of research.pdf
Obaid Siddiqi's letter to MGK Menon during his time at Yale in 1966, in which he comments that "the startling pace at which the field has moved made me feel rather depressed and acutely aware of the slowness of our own endeavours".
1966 Aug 14 D-2004-01230-42(1 - 2) OS to MGK pace of research.pdf
Obaid Siddiqi's letter to MGK Menon during his time at Yale in 1966, in which he comments that "the startling pace at which the field has moved made me feel rather depressed and acutely aware of the slowness of our own endeavours".
1966 Aug 14 D-2004-01230-42(1 - 2) OS to MGK pace of research.pdf
Obaid Siddiqi's letter to MGK Menon in August 1966. Siddiqi writes during his trip to Yale and remarks that "the startling pace at which the field has moved made me feel rather depressed and acutely aware of the slowness of our own endeavours".
1966 Jan HB speech ICSU - Szilard Hill OS biophysics.jpg
Excerpt from Homi Bhabha's speech in January 1966, at the International Council of Science. Bhabha mentions the hiring of Obaid Siddiqi and makes the connection to AV Hill's suggestion that he should look into biophysics in the future.
1966 Nov 29 D-2004-01230-49(1 - 11) OS to MGK - MBU outline neurobiology_1_1.pdf
An outline of the molecular biology unit's programme and faculty in November 1966
1966 Nov 29 D-2004-01230-49(1 - 11) OS to MGK - MBU outline neurobiology_1_1.pdf
An outline of the molecular biology unit's programme and faculty in November 1966
1966 Nov 29 D-2004-01230-49(1 - 11) OS to MGK - MBU outline neurobiology_1_2.pdf
An outline of the molecular biology unit's programme and faculty in November 1966
1966 Nov 29 D-2004-01230-49(1 - 11) OS to MGK - MBU outline neurobiology_1_2.pdf
An outline of the molecular biology unit's programme and faculty in November 1966
1966 Nov 29 D-2004-01230-49(1 - 11) OS to MGK - MBU outline neurobiology_1_3.pdf
An outline of the molecular biology unit's programme and faculty in November 1966
1966 Nov 29 D-2004-01230-49(1 - 11) OS to MGK - MBU outline neurobiology_1_3.pdf
An outline of the molecular biology unit's programme and faculty in November 1966
1966 Nov 29 D-2004-01230-49(1 - 11) OS to MGK - MBU outline neurobiology_1_4.pdf
An outline of the molecular biology unit's programme and faculty in November 1966
1966 Nov 29 D-2004-01230-49(1 - 11) OS to MGK - MBU outline neurobiology_1_4.pdf
An outline of the molecular biology unit's programme and faculty in November 1966
1966 Nov 29 D-2004-01230-49(1 - 11) OS to MGK - MBU outline neurobiology_1_5.pdf
An outline of the molecular biology unit's programme and faculty in November 1966
1966 Nov 29 D-2004-01230-49(1 - 11) OS to MGK - MBU outline neurobiology_1_5.pdf
An outline of the molecular biology unit's programme and faculty in November 1966
1966 Nov 29 D-2004-01230-49(1 - 11) OS to MGK - MBU outline neurobiology_1.pdf
An outline of the molecular biology unit's programme and faculty in November 1966
1966 Nov 29 D-2004-01230-49(1 - 11) OS to MGK - MBU outline neurobiology_1.pdf
An outline of the molecular biology unit's programme and faculty in November 1966
1966 Nov 29 D-2004-01230-49(1 - 11) OS to MGK - MBU outline neurobiology_1.pdf
An outline of the molecular biology unit's programme and faculty in November 1966
1966 Nov 29 D-2004-01230-49(1 - 11) OS to MGK - MBU outline neurobiology_1.pdf
An outline of the molecular biology unit's programme and faculty in November 1966
1966 Nov 29 D-2004-01230-49(1 - 11) OS to MGK - MBU outline neurobiology_1.pdf
An outline of the molecular biology unit's programme and faculty in November 1966
1967 Benzer PNAS Drosophila behavior - first benzer paper_1.pdf
One of the first Drosophila behaviour papers published in PNAS in 1967, from Seymour Benzer's lab at Caltech, "Behavioral mutants of Drosophila isolated by countercurrent distribution".
1967 Mol Bio Course - TIFR - lawn photo.tif
Participants at a molecular biology course at TIFR in the 1960s, including P.K. Maitra (first from left).
1969 Apr 8 D-2004-01230-90(1 of 1) OS to MGK - Narsimha Rao decline_edit
Obaid Siddiqi's letter to MGK Menon (April 8, 1969), where he expresses his lack of interest in a prospective senior faculty applicant, stating that his "published work does not provide evidence of originality and independent ability".
1969 Benzer to OS - Neurobiology shift.tif
Seymour Benzer's letter to Obaid Siddiqi in 1969, inviting him to Caltech and saying that he was glad Siddiqi was "becoming serious about switching to neurobiology".
1970s CSHL Neurobio course - group photo.jpg
Some of the members of the neurobiology community in the 1970s, at Cold Spring Harbour Labs.
1970s OS with Brenner - Fr Babu.tif
Sydney Brenner (left) on one of his visits to TIFR's molecular biology unit in the 1970s. These would be life-long collaborations, all the way up to his future visits to Bangalore.
1970s OS with Brenner - Fr Babu.tif
Obaid Siddiqi with one of his mentors, Sydney Brenner, during one of Brenner's visits to TIFR (top photo).
1970s Profile - Bhavsar.jpg
PN Bhavsar was one of the first scientific officers to join the molecular biology unit at TIFR in the 1960s. Bhavsar was witness to a variety of shifts in the research areas, and continued to study up to a Masters degree in his microbial genetics…
1970s TIFR MBU Veronica - Fly Maze.jpg
Veronica Rodrigues taking measurements with her in-house fly maze design. She and other researchers worked with the TIFR glass blowing facility to make Y-shaped tubes, a simple yet powerful device to test olfactory response in Drosophila, c 1979.
1971 JRD Tata speech - TIFR 25th anniversary_1.pdf
An extract from JRD Tata's speech at the 25th anniversary of TIFR
1971_Benzer_JAMA_Gene_to_behavior_1.pdf
An extract from Seymour Benzer's 1971 essay on going "From the Gene to Behavior", published in the Journal of the American Medical Association
1972 Nov 28 D-2004-01230-107(1 - 2) MR Das to MGK Virus work letter.pdf
M R Das, a faculty member at TIFR in the 1970s, highlighting the media and academic attention to his virology work to MGK Menon
1972 Nov 28 D-2004-01230-107(1 - 2) MR Das to MGK Virus work letter.pdf
M R Das, a faculty member at TIFR in the 1970s, highlighting the media and academic attention to his virology work to MGK Menon
1972 Nov 28 D-2004-01230-107(1 - 2) MR Das to MGK Virus work letter.pdf
Feedback for the work of MR Das, a faculty member at TIFR's Molecular Biology Unit in the 1970s, on his breast cancer research
1974 D-2004-01232 (4- 1-11) MBU composition note.tif
The composition of the molecular biology unit at TIFR in 1974. After 12 years of operation, the unit had eight faculty members, eight students and 16 supporting staff.
1974 D-2004-01232 (4- 1-11) MBU composition note.tif
The composition of the molecular biology unit at TIFR in 1974. After 12 years of operation, the unit had eight faculty members, eight students and 16 supporting staff.