Chennai: Delivering the first institute lecture “Celebration of Science” at IIT-Madras on Wednesday, Prof Rao said, Indian scientists get upset when they don’t get recognized. Eminent scientist C.N.R. Rao on Wednesday lamented that Indian scientists do ‘routine’ research and IITs don’t spend time to solve people’s problem.
Indian scientists are very good but they are not interested in solving problems. You (IITians) should think of a right problem. You should take the path less traversed by others, if you do it you will become successful,” the 80-year-old Bharat Ratna-designate said.
Pointing out that he had undertaken research on hydrogen, fuel cells, solar, batteries for the past one and a half years, Prof Rao said that top institutes in the country like the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras should take problems in society and address them.
Quoting Jules Verne from The Mysterious Island, Rao said water would be the coal of the future. Listing out the reasons why scientists in India don’t get a Nobel Prize, Prof Rao said that the country does not have large computers to do complex computational problems which hampered their research.
Bureau Report
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