“To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.”
– John Buchan
On 12 July 1927, Mahatma Gandhi visited the IISc, Bangalore (the first of his two visits). This picture that was taken on that day.
Gandhi ji spent time at the Department of Electrical Technology, with CV Raman , Kasturba Gandhi, Kenneth Aston (head of the department), and Mahadev Desai
(Gandhi’s personal secretary)
In 1930, Raman received the Nobel Prize in Physics for this discovery and was the first Asian to receive a Nobel Prize in ANY branch of science. He was knighted in 1929.
(Photo credit : IISc)
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