History · Sources of Modern Indian History
UGC NET June 2011 History
Who among the following had founded the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science?
AJ.C. Bose
BMeghnad Saha
CHomi Bhabha
DMahendralal Sarkar ✓ Correct
Correct answer: (D) Mahendralal Sarkar — The Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science was founded by Mahendralal Sarkar, so the answer is Mahendralal Sarkar.
Explanation
★The Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science was founded by Mahendralal Sarkar, so the answer is Mahendralal Sarkar.
★He established it at Kolkata in 1876 as a centre for original research in the basic sciences.
★It is regarded as Asia's oldest research institute devoted to fundamental science.
★At this institute C.V. Raman carried out the work that won him the Nobel Prize in Physics.
★J.C. Bose and Meghnad Saha were eminent scientists but not the founders of this body.
★Homi Bhabha, much later, founded the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.
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