TRU_SCIENCE & TRU_TECHNOLOGY: Third on Prof K R Rao D.Sc.(Madras) D.Sc.(London) PART II .Rejection of Defense Services of India : An Academic Professor

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Vol. 2012, Issue No.8, Dated: 07th August 2012 : Time 4h50m P.M.

PART II

Professor Dr. Kotcherlakota Lakshminarayana

(Retd Prof. of Physics, Shivaji Univeristy, India) 17-11-10, Narasimha Ashram, Official Colony, Maharanipeta. P .O, Visakhapatnam -530002. A. P.

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Third of the Series of Articles on

Prof. K. R. Rao

D.Sc. (Madras) D.Sc. (London)

[9^th September 1899 to 20^thJune 1972]

{A Researcher of the Universe}

He was a singular personality who nurtured the entire Electromagnetic Spectrum from one end to the other and gave a fill up to several people.

Fig.40a Atomic Energy Levels Volume I, II and III by Charlotte E Moore August 15, 1952.

(circular of the National Bureau of Standards 467 Issued August 15,1952.)

Note: As derived From the Analyses of Optical Spectra :

The spectra of Chromium, Manganese, Iron, Cobalt, Nickel, Copper, Zinc, Gallium, Germanium, Arsenic, Selenium, Bromine, Krypton, Rubidium, Strontium, Yttrium, Zirconium, and Niobium.

Triumph of Prof K R Rao : Analyses of Optical Spectra

With best compliments to Madam Charlotte E Moore August 15, 1952.

121-96-7-9-90---

ANDHRA UNIVERSITY.

From

C.D.S. Chetti, (Emblem AU) Station: Waltair

Registrar, Date: 18^th March 1938.

Strictly personal

Confidential

Dear Sir,

The Senate has recently sanctioned the conversion of a readership in the physics Department in to a professorship on Rs.400/2- 600 – 50/3 – 700 and the new post will come into existence with effect from 1^st July next.

˝I am desired by the vice chancellor to request you to let me know if you would like to be considered for the professorship. In case you do, please let me have a full statement of several grounds on which you base your request.

As the matter is urgent, I am to request that a reply may be sent so as to reach me not later them 25-3-1938’’

Date: 18-3-1938 yours truly, (sd/-) C D S Chetti.

Registrar

Dr. K. Rangadhama Rao D.Sc.,

Science College.

Fig.41 C D S Chetti Registrar Letter

conversion Readership to

Professorship w.e.f 1^st July 1938.

Fig.42 Mother’s Draft about Prof K R Rao’s Professorship

Fig.43 Mother’s Draft about Prof K R Rao’s Professorship

Fig.44 Mother’s Draft about Prof K R Rao’s Professorship

Fig.45 Mother’s Draft about Prof K R Rao’s Professorship

Fig.46 Mother’s Draft about Prof K R Rao’s Professorship

Fig.47 Mother’s Draft about Prof K R Rao’s Professorship

Fig.48 Book V V Rao

Fig.48a Forward by Dr K Rangadhama Rao book V V.Rao

~~a distinguisHED~~

ADDRESS

PRESENTED TO

dr. K. Rangadhama Rao, M.A. D.Sc. London F. N. I

Dear and Esteemed friend,

THIS is a happy occasion when we have the pleasure and

the privilege of expressing our felicitations on your elevation to the place of

the Principal of the University Colleges at Waltair.

Your appointment crowns the process of absorption by the

Andhra University of the alumni of this College to her staff. It is

a matter of grate rejoining to us that an old student of this Collage

has been chosen for this place of honor and distinction. The

Maharaja’s College is proud of her old boys who have won laurel

in the different fields of intellectual activity. She finds in you one of her

Illustrious offspring who has passed from success to success

in the course of his brilliant career.

We are all the more happy to note that in your promotion

the Syndicate was swayed by no other considerations except sheer

merit. You are an object lesson to the ambitions and aspiring youth

of the Andhra Desa for fundamental research in atomic and mole-

cular spectra. And we look with eager excepectation. for future

contributions that you will make to the sum total of scientfic

knowledge.

Dr. Rao the distinguished scientist is appreciated only by

students; but Mr. Rangadhama Rao the simple and unos-

tentatious man is loved and admired by all who have the occasion

to come into contact with him. Friend, the virtues of youri charac-

ter ensure you of success in the new office to which you have been

called. We are cortain that under your leadership the University

Colleges will attract scholars from far and near and become the

cultural centre of the country.

We pray to God that you may live long to lead the youth of the Andhra

province to a grand and noble destiny.

Vizianagram, We are,

27-11-1949. Your loving friends

of the Maharajah’s College.

Fig.48b Loving friends of Maharaja College on

27th November 1949 Felicitations as

Principal of AU by admirers IMG_1887 1

Prof. K. Rangadhama Rao,

M. A., D. Sc. , (Lond.)

PRINCIPAL, UNIVERSITY COLLEGES,

WALTAIR.

– ☼ –

Esteemed Sir,

We, the members of the Andhra university union, beg to

convey to you our hearty felicitations on your appointment

as Principal of the university colleges.

You have had, Sir, a distinguished academic career in the

course of which you took the Degree of Doctor of science of two

premier Universities Madras & London. You have traveled

widely and worked in various continental Laboratories in

Holland, Germany and Sweden specialising in Light and

particularly in Spectroscopy. You have also Considerable

teaching experience and have been guiding Research Students

for number of years. You were for some time on

the staff of the Maharaja’s College, Vizianagaram

and since 1932 you have been associated with the Andhra

University.

Your work has been solid and substantial. Quiet and

unostetatious, modest and retiring, you have never courted

the limelight of publicity.

Endowed with a Kindly disposition and a capacity for

genuine sympathy, you have endeared yourself to one and

all who came into contact with you and commanded their

esteem.

The students confidently look to you, Sir, for a sympathetic

appreciation and understanding of their problems and

difficulties.

At the same time, may we assure you of heir cordial co-

operation in all directions.

In conclusion, it is our earnest prayer that you should

granted by God Almighty long life and many more years of loyal,

disinterested nd useful work in the cause of our University

and our Motherland.

7^th December 1949,

WALTAIR. ANDHRA UNIVERSITY UNION.

Fig.48c. On 7th December 1949 Prof K R Rao became

as Principal of AU, Felicitations by AU Union.

IMG_1884 2

Fig.49. Defence of India Telegraph Letter offer

by E. N. Ramamurti US, UPSC.

Telegrams

“UNISERCOM” Stamp Public Service Commission Govt.of India.

CHAIRMAN

D.O.N.F.1/189/50-R

Post Box No. 186.

New Delhi, 8^th June 1951.

Dear Dr Rao,

The Commission have been unable to obtain suitable

scientists for the posts of Deputy Chief Scientific Officers

in the Defence Services. I enclose a copy of the

notification we have issued.

2. Some of those who are acquainted with you have

Suggested that we may find out whether you would be

interested in this post and would care to be considered for

it. Before the commission can take a decision on the

matter, they would be glad to have an opportunity of

meeting you. The Commission would be grateful if you

could kindly come and meet them once at your convenience.

I am permitted to offer you second class railway fare both

ways as a contribution towards the expenses of your

journey.

I should be grateful if you could kindly let me know

whether you would be interested in the post and it would

be possible for you to come and meet the Commission. After

we know your wishes, I shall fix a date and place according

to your convenience.

Yours Sincerely,

(R.N.Banerjee)

Dr. K.R.Rao, D.Sc. (Lond).,

Principal, College of science,

Andhra University,

Waltair.

Fig.50. Offer of Deputy Chief Scientific Officer rejected

dt. 8 June 1951

Fig.51. Reply Letter of rejection Deputy Chief Scientific Officer post

19 June,1951 by Prof K. Rangadhama Rao,

Principal, University Colleges.

PHYSICAL SOCIETY

J. V. D. (emblem) COLLEGE

ANDHRA UNIVERSITY

Address presented

Prof. K. Rangadhama Rao,M.A., D.Sc. (Madras) D. Sc. (London)

HEAD OF THE PHYSICS DEPARTMEN

And

Principal, Andhra University Colleges,

ON HIS APPOINTMENT AS

SPECIAL OFFICER, VENKETESWARA UNIVERSITY.

Dear Sir,

We, the members of the Physical Society of Andhra University,

offer you our heartiest felicitations on the eve of your departure as

Special Officer for the VENKETESWARA UNIVERSITY.

We are very proud that you have been chosen for the

important task of organising a sister University at Tirupati. We make

bold to say that the Andhra Government could not have made

a better choice.

Eminent and well experienced as you are in teaching and the

organization of university education, we believe that the planning of

the Venkatewswara Unversity is in safe hands. We are sure that your

efforts will lead to the establishment of a sound centre of education for

our brethern of Rayalaseema. When ultimately this institution matures

into a great seat of learning, taking into its fold youngmen and women not

only from Andhra Desa but also from all corners of India, people will

pay you homage as its chief architect.

We wish you good health and God speed and every success

In your mission.

WALTAIR, We remain Sir,

8^th March, ’54 Yours Sincerely,

MEMBERS OF THE PHYSICAL SOCIETY.

SARSWATHI POWER PRESS, NEAR TOWN HALL, VISAKHAPATNAM

Fig.52 Syndicate AU 1958 Rs.1250 salary to Prof K R Rao

LIST OF APPARATUS HANDED OVER TO Dr.P.Tiruvenganna Rao

by Dr K. R. Rao List-I

Fig.53 Apparatus handed over to

Prof T Rao etc.

LIST OF APPARATUS HANDED OVER TO Dr.P.Tiruvenganna Rao

by Dr K. R. Rao List-II

Fig. 54 Handing over apparatus endorsed

by Dr. D. Premswarup

Fig.55 Single Crystal bis-(ethylenediamine) fluroborate Copper II Optical Absorption

The interest of Prof K Rangadhama Rao in Optical Absorption Spectra is really wonderful that in the Ph.D thesis of Dr P. V. Gopalakrishna Murthy, the spectrum of single crystal of bis-(ethylenediamine) fluroborate Copper II has been analyzed and presented in the Year 1972 few months before his demise.

Fig.56. Last Thesis of Prof K R Rao verified for Gopalkrishna

Fig.57. Dr V S Ragunathan September 1958

Fig.58. Dr V S RAGHUNATHAN

Dr V S Raghunathan MD of KGH treated Prof K R Rao of the heart attack only with drugs and medicine but advised no bypass surgery or any other surgical procedures. Prof KRRao was lucky to have such eminent talented Medical Doctors who haven’t subjected him any kind of surgery. That’s the real Indian style of Medical treatment of intelligence and confidence in recovering the patient from such dangerous ailments even with the allopath practice of western systems.

Fig.59. Prof K R Rao's Income Tax

10 November 1959

Fig.60. I.C. return

Fig.61. Settlement of PF account

Settlement of PF Account of

Prof K Rangadhama Rao

It should be noted that Dr A L Narayan who managed to become Vice-Chancellor of Andhra University, with the twice rejected panels by the then Governor & Chancellor of the University since Prof K R Rao’s name was not mentioned in the panel of three names for the Vice Chancellorship. Ultimately Government of Andhra Pradesh insisted that Chancellor has no go but choose from the Panel of Names given to him.

Fig.62 On 29 November 1965

about V.C. appointment

Prof Dr Friedrich Hund identified Prof F Paschen President of the Physikalischen-Technischen Reichsaustalt as a man dark dress in a photograph taken while Dr. K. Rangadhama Rao was at Berlin.

Fig.63 Prof. Dr. Fredrick Hund letter to

Narayana

dt. 7 Juli

Dr K Krishna murthi of Nagpur Institute of Science and Dr I Ramakrishna Rao of Visakhapatnam both were close to Prof. K. R. Rao and as well to “Sir” C.V. Raman.