Dr D V N Sarma and His Diamond Work at USA 1957-1959 Blog Post Dt.2nd March 2008 Research Forum Meeting 2nd March 2008

Dr.D.V.N. Sarma and his Diamond work Scripps Institute of Oceanography, University of California, La Jolla, CaliforniaFlat No.1A2, Dolphins Apts, next to Taj Residency Hotel, Visakhapatnam
Dr DVNSarma worked with Prof.Harold Clayton Urey, at University of California, La Jolla, CaliforniaScripps Institute of Oceanography, moved along with him as a research assistant from Chicago. October 1957 to Jan 1959for an year and couple of months in Chicago. He was given the job of extracting diamond carbon material from Meteorites,those objects which was originally of Moon size, at the time when solar system was formed and got refined and reformed dueto often collisions. Prof Urey H.C had his own version of creation of universe from gas and dust clouds. He thought water was a sticking agent and objects of moonsize formed primordially that collided with each other, got modified and reformed. They melted away due to radiations and reformed into Planets with atmospheres. When there was no water on the Moon Prof Urey.H.C was made to eat a cake of no water on Moon after Apollo findings.Important findings have been made by DVNSarma regarding the Meteorites and for this purpose he developed a new technique of isolation of material that constituted the Meteorites.THE TECHNIQUE OF Dr.DVNSarma:The task of isolating the carbon content of Diamonds was difficult since, too small a content. He was spared with only 100gms to 200 Gms of the preciousmaterial and was given the object of finding the contents. He used a new technique unlike the one usually employed by the Chemistry people and found theDiamond Carbon by X-Ray analysis. DVNSarma was thrilled to find tiny magnetic crystals under a simple magnifyingmicroscope and discovered the tiny micro-diamond crystals of micro-grams weight. A dinner was given to him for that finding.Later Kgs of material was used by Miller, using the technique of KNO3 dissolution, who won the Nobel Prizefor isolating Diamonds. He Dr.DVNSarma published one paper along with THOSHIKA MAYEDA an American-Japanese researcher. The paper was published in Geochemical & CosmosChemica Acta. At California: At University of California the Professor gave DVNSarma a higher rating and gave him a fatty fellowship may be as a post-doctoralFellow, even before his Doctoral degree was awarded by AU, to the jealous eyes of the others.
DVNSarma arrived in America on Oct 1st, 1957 at Chicago by flight from Mumbai, on the 30th Sept 1957.He moved with his ProfessorTo California spent there six months before taking a sea voyage to India. He took French liner ship to reach Boston (England) fromNew York that took six days of sea travel. By train saw Oxford and London from there by ship to Calais (Paris) crossing the Channel. Spent at a Luxurious Hotel Continental (Royal peoples) paying $10 a night visited the Amphitheaters,went sight seeing in Paris and had been to the Eiffel Tower and the surrounding Gardens. He had been to Germany and at Dusseldorf in a hotel he was amazed to see a German treating him with a glass of water in a perfect marching style, with perfect right angle turns, march step covering of the distances, placing and removing the glass of water in an extremely METHODICAL way.From Paris he went to Rome by train. There he had been to Vatican and Maples and several amphitheaters of sport pleasure of the Italian kings and public. He went to a film theater and found Italian language of the movie very nice and fine. (A modified Latin perhaps with Sanskrit).Rythem of language was similar to Sanskrit. Traveled by sea 10 days from Italy to reach Mumbai via Karachiand Aden (Yemen).He saw Karachi under escort by police officers and found Aden a wonderful place like the Lebanon.QUANTUM ORBIT PLANETS: The idea of Quantum Orbits planets that melted away and became gases is still an opinion of DVNSarma that he holds to his heart. He reached Bombay around 15th May 1959.