G V Pavan Kumar
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Professor of Physics @IISERPune| Optics, Soft-matter, History & Philosophy of Physics| Scientist+Writer+Podcaster| HUMANIZING SCIENCE + OPEN SOURCE| On my own
Pune, India
Joined September 2009
All the essays are open-source CC license. You are free to use it for educational & non-commercial use with attribution. Please cite as:.Kumar, G. V. Pavan. “A Global History of Physics.” History & Philosophy of Science (blog), March 25, 2025.
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Welcome to essays in A Global History of Physics, where I discuss people, ideas, and technology involved in the development of physics across human time and space. Part 1 – Mechanics Engineer…
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To paraphrase something I tell my students, especially when they are starting a research project -. There are certainly many people in the world who think better than us. But the competition reduces when it comes to the people who take their thoughts and 'do' something with them.
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Ep 105 with @kollegala . Kollegala Sharma is a renowned science communicator and a prolific Kannada science writer, celebrated for making science accessible through articles, books, radio dramas, podcasts, and translations. A former chief scientist at CSIR-CFTRI Mysore, he is
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RT @IAScResonance: Watch out for an exciting new issue featuring Obaid Siddiqi and Veronica Rodrigues! Will soon be online at https://t.co/….
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RT @Archives_NCBS: We are seeking a pre or postdoctoral researcher in the History of Science with a specialised focus on engineering, physi….
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RT @Archives_NCBS: As the nation celebrates the birth centenary of agricultural scientist M S Swaminathan, here are a few images from his p….
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RT @IISERPune: Come join us for a #Colloquium / #PublicLecture by historian and author Dr. Manu Pillai @UnamPillai on “What is History?” Dr….
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In 2013, I was visiting Edinburgh. went on a random walk across the city. Maxwell is a local hero there (pic below). Also, there are statues of Adam Smith and Arthur Conan Doyle of Sherlock Holmes fame. More on my blog:
Every year, I teach an optics course to physics majors (including physics iPhD students and MS Quantum Tech students). In the process of introduction, I discuss how light was discovered to be an electromagnetic wave. One of the thrills of this topic is to quote Maxwell from his
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Every year, I teach an optics course to physics majors (including physics iPhD students and MS Quantum Tech students). In the process of introduction, I discuss how light was discovered to be an electromagnetic wave. One of the thrills of this topic is to quote Maxwell from his
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Einstein's final paragraph of his famous 1905 paper on Brownian motion:. "It is to be hoped that some enquirer may succeed shortly in solving the problem suggested here, which is so important in connection with the theory of Heat." . More than 100 years after, we are still.
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RT @ydnad0: A link to India's Astronomy Mega Science Vision is below. From the translational perspective, it was important for me to ensure….
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Edison wrote :. “Which do I consider my greatest invention ? Well, my reply to that would be that I like the phonograph best. Doubtless this is because I love music. And then it has brought so much joy into millions of homes all over this country, and , indeed, all over the
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My thoughts from a recent survey on Quantum Mechanics:. One of the joys of studying quantum mechanics, at any stage of a career, is to be aware of the fact that there is more scope for interpretations and understanding. This notion has not changed for several decades. A recent.
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