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Heisenberg_Humans and Other Animals On the Scope of Brain Science_1.pdf
Martin Heisenberg's 2012 essay in the Journal of Neurogenetics, reflecting on biology, his Drosophila work, and the limitations of brain science.
Heisenberg_Humans and Other Animals On the Scope of Brain Science_1.pdf
Martin Heisenberg's 2012 essay in the Journal of Neurogenetics, reflecting on biology, his Drosophila work, and the limitations of brain science.
Sep 13 quotations_black
A selection of quotes on the scientific process from past and current faculty at TIFR and NCBS.
1990 VR to Physics Faculty - kumari ban.jpg
Veronica Rodrigues' note in response to gender biases at TIFR, where she admonishes the Institute on their habit of addressing women by their marital status in official correspondence. Also look at the additional handwritten notes on the document…
1991 VR to V Singh - kumari ban.jpg
Veronica Rodrigues' note in response to gender biases at TIFR, where she admonishes the Institute on their habit of addressing women by their marital status in official correspondence. 1991.
2005 Bal women scientists in India_1.pdf
Extract from Vineeta Bal's 2005 article in Current Science on women scientists in India (originally published in Economic and Political Weekly in 2004)
2005 Bal women scientists in India_2.pdf
Extract from Vineeta Bal's 2005 article in Current Science on women scientists in India (originally published in Economic and Political Weekly in 2004)
2005 Bal women scientists in India_3.pdf
Extract from Vineeta Bal's 2005 article in Current Science on women scientists in India (originally published in Economic and Political Weekly in 2004)
2005 Bal women scientists in India_4.pdf
Extract from Vineeta Bal's 2005 article in Current Science on women scientists in India (originally published in Economic and Political Weekly in 2004)
2005 Bal women scientists in India_5.pdf
Extract from Vineeta Bal's 2005 article in Current Science on women scientists in India (originally published in Economic and Political Weekly in 2004)
2005 Bal women scientists in India_6.pdf
Extract from Vineeta Bal's 2005 article in Current Science on women scientists in India (originally published in Economic and Political Weekly in 2004)
2005 Bal women scientists in India_7.pdf
Extract from Vineeta Bal's 2005 article in Current Science on women scientists in India (originally published in Economic and Political Weekly in 2004)
2009_JCB_Vale_India_Biosciences_Special_report_gender.pdf
An extract looking at breakdown of faculty and students across major biological research institutions in India. From a 2009 special report in the Journal of Cell Biology on "Biological Sciences in India". The report is written by Ronald Vale and…
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Cover of "Lilavati's Daughters: The Women Scientists of India". 2008.
Lilavati_128-131_1.pdf
"Science and the Art of Detection". An article written by Gaiti Hasan, a faculty member at NCBS, in the book, "Lilavati's Daughters: The Women Scientists of India".
Lilavati_128-131_2.pdf
"Science and the Art of Detection". An article written by Gaiti Hasan, a faculty member at NCBS, in the book, "Lilavati's Daughters: The Women Scientists of India".
Lilavati_128-131_3.pdf
"Science and the Art of Detection". An article written by Gaiti Hasan, a faculty member at NCBS, in the book, "Lilavati's Daughters: The Women Scientists of India".
Lilavati_128-131_4.pdf
"Science and the Art of Detection". An article written by Gaiti Hasan, a faculty member at NCBS, in the book, "Lilavati's Daughters: The Women Scientists of India".
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The Dolna creche had humble beginnings at NCBS after R. Sowdhamini joined in the late 1990s. Sowdhamini was the first female faculty hire with a young child. There were other kids of a similar age group among the children of the male faculty. But the…
TIFR - Word Learning - 1.JPG
English is the medium of instruction and communication at TIFR and NCBS. It is unlikely to see anything written in Kannada anywhere on the NCBS campus. There are efforts at both places to try and bridge the gap with regional languages, like this…
TIFR - Word Learning - 2.JPG
English is the medium of instruction and communication at TIFR and NCBS. It is unlikely to see anything written in Kannada anywhere on the NCBS campus. There are efforts at both places to try and bridge the gap with regional languages, like this…
NCBS lawn - Horticulture services.jpg
Almost every day, at a certain hour in the late morning, four employees of the horticultural services are at work, weeding in the central lawn.
TIFR Lawns - Horiticulture services.jpg
Employees of the horticultural services at TIFR at work in the lawns in front of the main building on a typical monsoon day in Mumbai.
1989-07-31 OS To UAS - 1.tif
In 1989, Obaid Siddiqi wrote a letter to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Agricultural Sciences, assuring him that the new NCBS will hire locally. "We envisage that the bulk of the staff in the lower categories of employees will be from the…
1989-07-31 OS To UAS - 2.tif
In 1989, Obaid Siddiqi wrote a letter to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Agricultural Sciences, assuring him that the new NCBS will hire locally. "We envisage that the bulk of the staff in the lower categories of employees will be from the…
1944 D-2004-00019-1(1-6) - letter from R Choksi to HB - tips - Tata family.pdf
In the early 1940s, Homi Bhabha greatly benefited from the assistance of Professor Rustom Choksi, a member of the Tata Trust who advised Bhabha at every step. Here, in February 1944, Choksi advises that a letter to the Tata Trust for the proposal to…
1944 D-2004-00019-1(1-6) - letter from R Choksi to HB - tips - Tata family.pdf
In the early 1940s, Homi Bhabha greatly benefited from the assistance of Professor Rustom Choksi, a member of the Tata Trust who advised Bhabha at every step. Here, in February 1944, Choksi advises that a letter to the Tata Trust for the proposal to…
1944 D-2004-00019-1(1-6) - letter from R Choksi to HB - tips - Tata family.pdf
In the early 1940s, Homi Bhabha greatly benefited from the assistance of Professor Rustom Choksi, a member of the Tata Trust who advised Bhabha at every step. Here, in February 1944, Choksi advises that a letter to the Tata Trust for the proposal to…
1944 D-2004-00019-1(1-6) - letter from R Choksi to HB - tips - Tata family.pdf
In the early 1940s, Homi Bhabha greatly benefited from the assistance of Professor Rustom Choksi, a member of the Tata Trust who advised Bhabha at every step. Here, in February 1944, Choksi advises that a letter to the Tata Trust for the proposal to…
1944 D-2004-00019-1(1-6) - letter from R Choksi to HB - tips - Tata family.pdf
In the early 1940s, Homi Bhabha greatly benefited from the assistance of Professor Rustom Choksi, a member of the Tata Trust who advised Bhabha at every step. Here, in February 1944, Choksi advises that a letter to the Tata Trust for the proposal to…
1944 D-2004-00019-1(1-6) - letter from R Choksi to HB - tips - Tata family.pdf
In the early 1940s, Homi Bhabha greatly benefited from the assistance of Professor Rustom Choksi, a member of the Tata Trust who advised Bhabha at every step. Here, in February 1944, Choksi advises that a letter to the Tata Trust for the proposal to…
1962 Nov 7 D-2004-01230-7(1 - 2) Faculty Meet - MBU electricty savings.pdf
In November 1962, when resources were tight at TIFR, the Registrar suggested that the molecular biology unit could get funds through "savings under some heads (electricity, etc)".
1985-05-07 VR to Champa from Goa - guruji - 1.tif
A 1985 letter from Veronica Rodrigues to Champakali Ayyub, where Rodrigues addresses Obaid Siddiqi as guruji. It was common for the students to address Siddiqi in that manner, though it changed in later years.
1989-07-31 OS To UAS - 1.TIF
In 1989, Obaid Siddiqi wrote a letter to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Agricultural Sciences, assuring him that the new NCBS will hire locally. "We envisage that the bulk of the staff in the lower categories of employees will be from the…
1989-07-31 OS To UAS - 2.TIF
In 1989, Obaid Siddiqi wrote a letter to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Agricultural Sciences, assuring him that the new NCBS will hire locally. "We envisage that the bulk of the staff in the lower categories of employees will be from the…
1990 Aug VijayRaghavan request for Jeeva Raju.tif
K VijayRaghavan's 1990 letter to the TIFR Centre administration, requesting to hire K Jeevaraju for his lab. Jeevaraju continues to look after services in the lab kitchen.
1990 NCBS Proposal - Staff number.pdf
An extract from the 1990-92 NCBS proposal showing the staff projections over the next 20 years. The faculty count at NCBS has, by and large, stayed within this pattern.
1990-92 Bangalore Land File - Log Book 1.tif
File 181 in TIFR is synonymous with all things related to the TIFR Centre. People would check the logbook in and out, and it got especially busy in the years between 1990 and 1992.
1991 NIAS Lecture - Science Trends - OS Hand Written - 2.tif
Discussion on institutional autonomy are closely to its administration. In his lecture at the new National Institute for Advanced Studies in 1991, Obaid Siddiqi shared his concern for the administration of science, saying that "one of the major…
1991 NIAS Lecture - Science Trends - OS Hand Written - 3.tif
Discussion on institutional autonomy are closely to its administration. In his lecture at the new National Institute for Advanced Studies in 1991, Obaid Siddiqi shared his concern for the administration of science, saying that "one of the major…
1991-01-04 OS to MBU - 60th bday thanks.tif
A note from Obaid Siddiqi and Asiya Siddiqi to the staff and students at the molecular biology unit in January 1991, a follow up to Obaid Siddiqi's 60th birthday celebration
1994 Oct (Proposed Staff Structure for NCBS) (2).tif
Steering Committee Meeting minutes extract that shows the anticipated staff structure at NCBS in 1994.
1994-1995 NCBS Annual Report - Admin Structure.tif
The NCBS administrative structure in February 1995, extracted from the NCBS Annual Report 1994-95.
1995-96 D-2004-01240-02 - ncbs construction monthly report.tif
Every month, TM Sahadevan, an administrative officer at NCBS, would send a report to the TIFR Director with an update of the construction process. The reports would include pasted photographs of the site.
1995-96 D-2004-01240-04 - ncbs construction monthly report.tif
Every month, TM Sahadevan, an administrative officer at NCBS, would send a report to the TIFR Director with an update of the construction process. The reports would include pasted photographs of the site.
1995-96 D-2004-01240-13 - ncbs construction monthly report.tif
Every month, TM Sahadevan, an administrative officer at NCBS, would send a report to the TIFR Director with an update of the construction process. The reports would include pasted photographs of the site.
1995ish TIFR Centre Group Photo
Group photo of staff members at the TIFR IISc centre, c 1995
1996-09-03 PMC Minutes Annexure - Contract Staff.tif
Annexure from the Project Management Committee meeting minutes in September 1996. NCBS tries to keep a total of about 60 permanent non-academic staff, expecting that the facilities work will be done by people "on contract to external agencies".
2009 OS NCBS Talk to Administration (Hand Written Minutes) - 1.tif
In an outreach talk to the NCBS administration in 2009 on olfaction in Drosophila, Obaid Siddiqi started by saying that the scientific career was a self-rewarding one. And he wondered "Is administration - if it is mere service - self rewarding?"