1. Citations
  2. Auteurs
  3. C. N. R. Rao

C. N. R. Rao citations

Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao, également connu sous le nom de C. N. R. Rao , est un chimiste indien qui a principalement travaillé dans la chimie du solide et la chimie structurale. Il est actuellement président du conseil consultatif scientifique auprès du Premier ministre indien. Rao a des doctorats honorifiques de 60 universités du monde entier et est l'auteur d'environ 1 600 publications de recherche et de 51 livres. Wikipedia  

✵ 30. juin 1934
C. N. R. Rao photo
C. N. R. Rao: 40   citations 0   J'aime

C. N. R. Rao: Citations en anglais

“Keep a balance between professional and personal life. Find time for your family and the things which interest you.”

Help us translate this quote
C. N. R. Rao

How I made it: CNR Rao, Scientist (2010)

“Never stop learning. The thirst to gain more knowledge should never come to an end.”

Help us translate this quote
C. N. R. Rao

How I made it: CNR Rao, Scientist (2010)

“Those days, poor teachers and poor policemen alone would have maximum children. But my father believed in a sort of family planning. He was known as family planning teacher then.”

Help us translate this quote
C. N. R. Rao

Scientist wonders why nobody asks him about Dan David prize (2013)

“The conditions at IISc were no match to the American centres but it is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.”

Help us translate this quote
C. N. R. Rao

How I made it: CNR Rao, Scientist (2010)

“Since I set up the Unit, the area of solid state chemistry is no longer called so but is called chemistry of materials. This subject has become important. I set up this Unit in Bangalore much before the subject became important in the world. Now chemistry has two major directions:chemical biology and materials chemistry.”

Help us translate this quote
C. N. R. Rao

Quoted in "In Conversation".

“Prof Rao said he visited the Nobel prize-winning scientist’s (C. V. Raman} laboratory in Bengaluru first as an 11 year-old school boy. “He was the first to recognize my interest in science and has given me a lot of encouragement. He made me a member of the Indian Academy of Sciences when I was only 30. I can never be equal to him.”

Help us translate this quote
C. N. R. Rao

Quoted in "CNR Rao: Bharat finds a jewel in science".

“University of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley) is one of the most outstanding universities, and the Chemistry Department there ranks first amongst the universities of the world in research performance. This department was established by G. N. Lewis, who is considered to be the father of modern chemistry.”

Help us translate this quote
C. N. R. Rao

Source: Climbing the Limitless Ladder: A Life in Chemistry (2010), p. 32

“I have been working in the area of solid state chemistry for nearly four decades. When I first got seriously interested in the subject in the early 1950s it was still in in infancy. Very few chemists, let alone others, recognized solid state chemistry as an integral part of the main-stream chemistry. In spite of such benign tolerance, solid state chemistry has gradually emerged to become a crucial component of modern solid state and material science.”

Help us translate this quote
C. N. R. Rao

[R. A. Mashelkar, Solid State Chemistry: Selected Papers of C N R Rao, http://books.google.com/books?id=8ZSfo_HUk7oC&pg=PA4, 28 February 1995, World Scientific, 978-981-279-589-2, 4]

“Prof Brown used to say, if it is worth doing, it must be worth publishing. Faraday had said much the same many years earlier. In science, we “ work, finish and publish”. These statements have guided me all through my professional life.”

Help us translate this quote
C. N. R. Rao

Source: Climbing the Limitless Ladder: A Life in Chemistry (2010), p. 30

“You give attention to army, police and things like that. Who pays attention to science? When I got the Dan David prize, which is similar to Nobel and given once in a few years by Israel, nobody talked about it. Nobody asked me anything about it. Nobody even knows and nobody understands it. It is so prestigious in the world of science but why didn’t anyone write about it?”

Help us translate this quote
C. N. R. Rao

Scientist wonders why nobody asks him about Dan David prize (2013)

“Substances can exist in three states – gas, liquid and solid. Water exists in all three states: gas (steam or water vapour), liquid (ordinary water) and solid (ice}. Properties of gases, liquids and solids are different.”

Help us translate this quote
C. N. R. Rao

Source: Understanding Chemistry (1999), p. 56

“I am also working on materials never worked on in the world, completely new type of materials on the planet. I am worried not so much for myself, I will go on working. But I am worried for others.”

Help us translate this quote
C. N. R. Rao

Scientist wonders why nobody asks him about Dan David prize (2013)

“Always gain fresh insights, don't hesitate to ask the right questions.”

Help us translate this quote
C. N. R. Rao

How I made it: CNR Rao, Scientist (2010)

“Also, we need to give importance to value systems to promote innovation. We need to develop an ecosystem of innovation and technology will arrive soon. Of the 140 nations rated for innovation, India stood at a lowly 66. We need new ways of doing things and new ways of thinking. We cannot be doing the same things. Jugaad (a temporary solution) is one of them. The atmosphere itself should encourage innovation.”

Help us translate this quote
C. N. R. Rao

Quoted in "We need to have an instinct for self-preservation: C N R Rao".

“The Maharaja of Mysore (then Governor of Mysore), ayachamarajendra Wodeyar, visited Berkeley for a day. I took him around. He was really impressed when he saw the accelerators in the Radiation Laboratory on the hill. He was happy to speak to me in Kannada and even more happy that I knew a little Sanskrit.”

Help us translate this quote
C. N. R. Rao

Source: Climbing the Limitless Ladder: A Life in Chemistry (2010), p. 35

“We couldn’t afford many things, but we had education. My father was a headmaster and later became an education officer. My mother was fantastic: she always told me, ‘Do what you want.’ She gave me total freedom, in fact both my parents did. But I really owe it to my mother. When I said I will go to Banaras (Varanasi) to study, she said, ‘You want to go to Banaras? Ok, go.’ She would say, ‘Don’t worry about money, reading is most important, read and then everything will come.’ My family was very open. Thanks to them I’m what I am today. I am the only child of my parents, so is my wife.”

Help us translate this quote
C. N. R. Rao

Scientist wonders why nobody asks him about Dan David prize (2013)

“Music for me is therapeutic.”

Help us translate this quote
C. N. R. Rao

Quoted in We need to have an instinct for self-preservation: C N R Rao, 30 November 2013, 22 December 2013, Business Standard http://www.business-standard.com/article/opinion/we-need-to-have-an-instinct-for-self-preservation-c-n-r-rao-113113000358_1.html,

“The Berekley campus was academically overpowering. In the Tuesday evening colloquia, one would see a galaxy of chemists in the front row, with many Nobel Laureates and members of the National Academy of Science amongst them. It was a daunting task to give talks at these meetings. I managed to survive those occasions.”

Help us translate this quote
C. N. R. Rao

Source: Climbing the Limitless Ladder: A Life in Chemistry (2010), p. 37

“Nanoparticles constitute a major class of nanomaterials. Nanoparticles are zero-dimensional, possessing nonmetric dimensions in all three dimensions.”

Help us translate this quote
C. N. R. Rao

Rao in

“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.”

Help us translate this quote
C. N. R. Rao

Scientist wonders why nobody asks him about Dan David prize (2013)

“Since there was no infrared spectrometer, I managed to record routine infrared spectra of certain compounds here and there, in order to categorize group frequencies. One of these papers became a citation classic.”

Help us translate this quote
C. N. R. Rao

About his initial years of his work in Indian Institute of science after his return from USA, p. 40
Climbing the Limitless Ladder: A Life in Chemistry (2010)

“Observe leaders closely, learn as much as you can from their leadership styles.”

Help us translate this quote
C. N. R. Rao

How I made it: CNR Rao, Scientist (2010)

“Atoms were originally proposed as an idea. Although their presence was proved by various means, people did not think that they could see them directly. This was so until recently. We are now able to directly see atoms by employing powerful microscopic techniques.”

Help us translate this quote
C. N. R. Rao

Source: Understanding Chemistry (1999), p. 22

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

Help us translate this quote
C. N. R. Rao

Source: Understanding Chemistry (1999), p. 8

“Man’s search for metals goes back to prehistoric times. Metals have been used for several thousands of years in India. Certain periods in history are associated with specific periods used extensively during that period”

Help us translate this quote
C. N. R. Rao

Source: Understanding Chemistry (1999), p. 28

“Even metals offer some resistance for the passage of electricity. Some materials conduct electricity without any resistance. Such materials are called superconductors.”

Help us translate this quote
C. N. R. Rao

Source: Understanding Chemistry (1999), p. 59

“Fifty years is a very long period. The first 30–35 years – we could call this period as one when India equipped itself to face important problems. For example, we built institutions such as the IITs and the National Laboratories…We need much better infrastructure facilities and we must work on more difficult problems. Unfortunately, we have been used to working on problems that are somewhat repetitive. If we want to be at the cutting edge, we have to be innovators and originators.”

Help us translate this quote
C. N. R. Rao

Quoted in pdf, In Conversation, 22 December 2013, Indian Institute of Science http://www.iisc.ernet.in/currsci/apr102002/788.pdf,

“I feel the Indian industry should contribute to help the government towards scientific research. The government alone can't do it. As of now, there's nothing. I have been into research for about 40 years. In the US, 50 to 60 per cent of the research and development (R&D) cost would be covered by the industry. There is a need for the same here and the industry needs to do it. Earlier, the industry in India didn't feel the need to do research. They could sell anything. Now, it wants to compete with the likes of South Korea and Japan, but they can't. We need to change this or the industry can't compete.”

Help us translate this quote
C. N. R. Rao

Quoted in "We need to have an instinct for self-preservation: C N R Rao".

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

Help us translate this quote
C. N. R. Rao

Source: Understanding Chemistry (1999), p. 7

Auteurs similaires

Marie Curie photo
Marie Curie 3
physicienne et chimiste française d'origine polonaise
Mère Teresa photo
Mère Teresa 17
religieuse et missionnaire catholique indienne d'origine al…
Amartya Sen photo
Amartya Sen 2
économiste indien
Primo Levi photo
Primo Levi 8
écrivain et chimiste italien
Rosalind Elsie Franklin photo
Rosalind Elsie Franklin 1
biologiste moléculaire britannique
Albert Londres photo
Albert Londres 1
journaliste français