June--15--2011 Wednesday
The Saint and the Scientist (1896 – 1969)
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Usually, a person can be a saint or a scientist. But Swami Jnanandaji was a unique person; he was both a saint and a scientist. He did about 10 years of penance / meditation in Garwal region of Himalayas. He wrote many books on Sri Krishna and Philosophy and Hinduism. Later he went abroad and took two Doctorate degrees, one from Prague University and the other from Liverpool University (U.K.), just with his background of high school education in Bhimavaram only. He was much admired for his extraordinary brilliance as a scientist; he worked with world-renowned Nuclear Scientist Prof. James Chadwick, (Nobel-laureate and discoverer of neutron) and earned a Doctorate Degree under his guidance.
He returned to India, during Dec--1947. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the then Prime Minister of India, Prof.H.J.Bhabha, the then Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission, Dr.A.S.Rao (the founder Director of Electronics Corporation of India at Hyderabad), Dr.B.V.Thosar, Director of Physics Group, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and many such eminent personalities were his close friends and his well-wishers. They extended their full support to the scientific and research endeavors of Swamiji and provided him several millions of rupees of research grants liberally , during 1955-68 period. He worked for some time as Assistant Director in National Physical laboratory; later he came to Visakhapatnam during 1955, on the invitation of Prof. V.S. Krishna, the then Vice-Chancellor of the Andhra University. He started Nuclear Physics department and worked as the Head of the Department and Goutami Professor, on contract basis for 10 years (1955-65), in Andhra University. Over 18 students completed their research and got D.Sc. Degrees under his guidance during 1956—68 period. He wrote two advance-level text books on Nuclear Physics, and on Nuclear Models during this period (published by the Andhra University Press, Visakhapatnam). A book on him entitled “The Saint and The Scientist” was published by the University Resources Press, Washington, U.S.A in 1992. In 1982, the Nuclear Physics Department was given the name of Swami Jnananda Laboratories for Nuclear Research, to honour him.
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