Mosque in Coquitlam Canada spray painted: "Sandniggas"
California: Two elderly sikhs are mistaken for Muslims and shot while walking (one killed, one remains in hospital).
California: 68-year-old woman finds desecrated Qur'an on her vandalized car.
California: Muslim, mother of three, graduate student thrown off plane for being suspicious.
Washington: Two plead guilty to hate attack on Sikh cab driver, who they thought was Muslim.
UK: Planned Muslim community center burnt down.
UK: Reporter who quit over anti-Muslim approach of newspaper gets threats.Source: Alhamdulillah
Uh!Thanks to Becker and Morrison an open hostility for anything Hindu that included the Congress formed the basis of the Aligarh Movement.
On October 20, 1920, the Aligarh University was granted its official Charter. In spite of several obstacles, the Imam continued his ceaseless efforts for the Muslim University, and further announced his annual grant of Rs. 10,000/- for Aligarh University, which was subsequently raised. The Ismaili individuals also made their generous contributions to Aligarh University. For instance, Mr. Kassim Ali Jairajbhoy gave Rs. 1,25,000 to found chairs of Philosophy and Science in the Aligarh in memory of his father.Source : PositiveArticles
In Physics the name of Prof.Wali Mohammad the former head of the Physics Department in the AMU, and also the head at Lucknow University in field of spectroscopy can be found in all the text books.Source : Swadesi Science Movement
Japan is in the midst of a slow-motion nuclear meltdown.Pray and hope for the best. (Hat Tip Till Here : Interactions Blog Watch )
I feel happy to be at this great seat of learning that nearly a hundred years old. It has given many scientists, writers, poets, historians and statesmen to the country. Its Physics Department is amongst the oldest in the country. Initially, I believe, it had two specializations, nuclear physics and spectroscopy. It trained a large number of people who later on served all over the country and the world. I particularly shall mention Professor P. Venkateswarlu who, though not an alumnus of AMU, was here. He later on went to IIT Kanpur. Though I did not meet him there but I inherited his lab.
I was actually on the way to IPMU when the earthquake struck. Thanks to the early warning system, the train I was on could execute an emergency halt and came to a full stop just before the shock waves reached us. I was stuck in the train for about 2 1/2 hours. Then, we were evacuated on foot and led to the next station. Train service only started to resume the next day, which meant that everyone on the train had to spend the night at a nearby city hall. Even though I never made it to IPMU, e-mails inform me that everyone at IPMU is fine.The writer is Susanne Reffert a Switzerland born, MIT educated, German physicist in Japan.
Mullahs ridiculed the notion that science could provide an explanation; they incited their followers into smashing television sets, which had provoked Allah's anger and hence the earthquake. As several class discussions showed, an overwhelming majority of my university's science students accepted various divine-wrath explanations.Since majority of the students did not really go with him it might look like a no-benefit exercise to take up this issue. It is not. Some issues still need clarification. Or elaboration.
R.F.Hunter, The Electronic Theory of Triad Mobility, Current Science, Vol 1 , No3 (1932) 69Lessheim and Samuel also appear early in:
H.Lessheim and R.Samuel, On Connection Between Di- and Tri-atomic Molecules, Current Science, Vol 2, (1933) 374After that there are regular contributions from these authors. Then, after few years, there is a paper by Dr Muhammad Zaki Uddin not from AMU but Bonn, Germany as a Humboldt Fellow:
Muhammad Zaki Uddin, The Arc Spectrum of Iron in the Photographic Infrared Region, Current Science, Vol 3, (1935) 620He must have joined AMU later on since there are papers by him from Aligarh.
ELEMENTS OF SOLID STATE PHYSICSTHIRD EDITIONJ.P. SrivastavaTHE BOOKThis revised and updated third edition of the text builds on the strength of previous edition and gives a systematic and clear exposition of the fundamental principles of solid state physics.The text covers the topics such as crystal structures and chemical bonds, semiconductors, dielectrics, magnetic materials, superconductors, and nanomaterials. What distinguishes this text is the clarity and precision with which the author discusses the principles of physics, their relations as well as their applications. The most notable features of this third edition are: a detailed discussion on the bonding and cohesion of atoms, the picture of Fermi level in extrinsic semiconductors, and a precise and elaborate treatment of grain boundaries. With the addition of the new sections and additional information, this third edition should prove highly useful for the students.This book is designed for the courses in solid state physics for B.Sc. (Hons.) and M.Sc. students of physics. Besides, the book would also be useful to students of electrical/electronics and allied engineering disciplines.NEW TO THE THIRD EDITION
- Specific nature of primary and secondary bonds distinguished (Chapter 2)
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THE AUTHORJ.P. Srivastava is a former Professor of Physics from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh and an Emeritus Scientist. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and did postdoctoral research in Germany as a DAAD-Fellow. Professor Srivastava has over 30 years of teaching experience in solid state physics at the postgraduate level. He has published nearly 80 research papers in international journals in the areas of Crystal Fields, Phase Transitions, MIT, and CMR.