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C. N. R. Rao: Citations en anglais

“Build a strong base. The journey to peaks of excellence requires a strong base camp.”

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

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

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After his getting the August-Wilhelm-von-Hofmann Medal for chemistry quoted in Need young scientists to lead: C N R Rao, 11 January 2011, 22 December 2013, Nature Publishing Group http://www.nature.com/nindia/2010/100111/full/nindia.2009.365.html,

“Our society has created a bunch of icons and role models who are distorting not just the future of this city [Bangalore] but of all India, and of our sense of values. Our people have lost respect for scholarship. Money and commerce has taken over. If IT is going to take away our basic values, then you can burn Bangalore and burn IT.”

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Quoted in CNR Rao, a high priest of pure science gets Bharat Ratna, 12 November 2012, 22 December 2013, IBN Live http://ibnlive.in.com/news/world-renowned-scientist-cnr-rao-gets-bharat-ratna/434510-3.html,

“We created CNR Rao Education Foundation from a part of the million-dollar Dan David Award from Tel Aviv University, Israel, because if the youth don't catch on to science at a young age, we will lose whatever science and technology advantage we have now. My wife, Indumati has been leading the work of this foundation along with members of the family. We want to see India emerge as a scientific giant.”

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

“Among scientists, I am the second to get it [Bharat Ratna], after C. V. Raman. M. Visveswariah was an engineer, not a scientist. In that sense I am the second scientist to get it. I am happy that Kannadigas are also getting the award. My parents would always tell me to learn Kannada well in my younger days so I could be good both in Kannada and English. Learn to read and write Kannada, then you can learn English and enjoy both languages.”

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

“The famous iron pillar in Delhi, erected in the Gupta period (over 1500 years ago), is a marvel. After all these years this pillar stands erect without deterioration. This rustless iron pillar is a tribute to the great ingenuity of our forefathers.”

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Source: Understanding Chemistry (1999), p. 36

“I feel basic science is getting its due now. I used to say earlier that Dr Homi Bhabha should get this honour and also some other eminent researchers. Scientists work very, very had but rarely get recognition. I have been working for 62 years. I was 17 when I started my research. I am going to be 80 soon.”

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Quoted in CNR Rao: Bharat finds a jewel in science, 17 November 2013, 22 December 2013, Deccan Chronicle http://www.deccanchronicle.com/131117/news-current-affairs/article/cnr-rao-bharat-finds-jewel-science,

“My monograph on visible spectroscopy using molecular orbital notations eventually resulted into a book in 1960.”

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

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

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Source: Understanding Chemistry (1999), p. 29

“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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Source: Understanding Chemistry (1999), p. 8