Wednesday, March 23, 2011

The Alig Connection

One might wonder as to what is the Aligarian connection in the earlier post titled Curing Eye Melanoma. Nothing directly. Indirectly a lot. Cyclotron is a sophisticated machine (not so to physics students) and costs a little bit. Even at the research level India has only few of them. Counting from east to west VECC (Variable Energy Cyclotron Center) at Kolkata. Even then a break through has to come at some time so why not now? AMU has the history of being the university to take the path breaking steps. Cyclotron is an accelerator and the Physics Department of AMU was among the first departments in the country to procure the ancestor of accelerators called a van de Graaf generator. Moreover Aligarh is some sort of Eye Care capital, in north India at least, and it is natural for AMU to go for such a machine. So, Ladies and Gentlemen, vote for a cyclotron for Ophthalmology Department for using proton beams for curing eye melanoma.