From: kurdikar@methacrylate.ecn.purdue.edu (Dev)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: IIT Bullshit
Date: 2 Oct 92 23:39:03 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

In article <1992Sep30.140412.13237@cas.org> nlp54@cas.org writes:
>Rakesh!
>     You forgot to say the following:
>      1) Ramanujam did his doctorate at Madras IIT.
>      2) Sir J.C. Bose graduated from Kharagpur IIT.
>      3) Sir C. V. Raman did his research at Madras IIT and beacause of the
>	 prestige of IIT only he was awarded the Nobel Prize.
       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^


	You must be kidding !!!   Read about the Nobel prizes in one of the 
	issues of "Science" that appeared in Sept, 92 [I don't recall the exact
	week it came in !

>      4) Haragobind Khorana did his M.Sc. at Delhi IIT.  That training got him
>	 the Nobel Prize.  He is very fortunate to go to IIT.
					^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

	You make it sound as if it needs to be written in a persons destiny to
	go to IIT !  
						
>      5) Suri Bhagavantam attended the Madras IIT and that was the reason why he
>	 became the director of the IISc.
       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^


	Come on...you are really taking things too far...aren't you ?
	
	IITs may be a good place for undergraduate  education and some research,
	but don't lose your sense of perspective.  

	Saying things like 'because of the prestige of IIT' a person can get
	a Nobel prize is demeaning the Nobel prize cos it implies that others
who got it, got it cos they were at good institutions...of course, there
are enough Nobel Laureates who did great research at virtually unknown
places.


	Also note, that IITs are not the BEST places for research for all
fields. A few examples of fields where IITs don`t figure at the top. 

1. Chemical Engineering:  National Chemical Lab, University of Bombay (UDCT)
	and IISc are the leaders [see article by Mashelkar in "One hundred years
of chemical engineering" Editor: NA Peppas, 1986  for verification]

2. Biological Sciences:  Center for Molecular Biology.

3. Physics:  National Physics Lab

4. Chemistry:  Again National Chemical Lab.

5. Materials: Defense Research Labs.

6. Aeronautics:  HAL



>      6) T. R. Seshadri was awarded the doctorate by the Madras IIT and Bombay
>	 IIT.  At Delhi IIT he learned the Natural Product Chemistry.
>      7) Meghnadh Shah did his B.Sc. at Kharagput IIT.
>      8) Aryabhatta studied at Bombay IIT.
>      9) M.S. Swaminathan did his B.Tech. in Agric. Engg. at the Kharagpur IIT.
>      10) B.P.Pal developed all his roses in the IIT Kharagpur gardens.
>      11) J.B.S. Haldane did his research at all  the IITs.
>      12) Birbal Sahani did his research at the Delhi IIT.
>      13) V. P. Subrahmanyam learned his meteorology at the Madras IIT.
>      14) Panchanan Maheswari did his pioneering research on embryology at the
>	  Delhi IIT.
>
>
>	  What great places IITs are?
>	  There is a difference between a technician and an intellect.
>
>
>	  PARANANDI LAKSHMI NARASIMHAM
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