Discover stories from the Archives at NCBS
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M S Swaminathan’s papers
The archives at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore, is among the few repositories featuring a collection of papers from notable Indian scientists. In 2023, my research on radioisotopes and their research applications led me to the Archives at NCBS to consult the papers of Dr M.S. Swaminathan, who is widely hailed as…
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Why we changed the way we collect material in 2024
In 2023, we went on a rather energetic, and (for us) unprecedented drive to bring in exciting new material into the archives. Rather quickly into the year, we realised that the standard methods of acquisition just didn’t bring in archival material from female scientists, the way they did from male scientists. We had less of…
