Twenty Years with Resonance
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Twenty Years with Resonance∗ V Rajaraman Prologue One late afternoon in January 1995 Professors N. Mukunda and Raghavendra Gadagkar came to my office and requested me to join the planning group of a new journal on science education to be launched by the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore. They told me that the journal was meant for undergraduate students in sciences including computer and engineering sciences. As I had many commitments at that time, I was not sure whether I would be able to devote enough time for this project. They persuaded me to join the planning team and I agreed. In hindsight it was a very good decision as I got deeply involved in the project and the planning of a new journal was a stimulating experience. The planning group had besides Mukunda, Gadagkar, and me, Vani Brahmachari, J. Chandrasekhar, Mohan Dalampady, Uday Maitra, R. Nityananda, Gangan Prathap, and A. Sitaram. The ten of us met for about two hours every week during 1995 to outline the contents of the journal. There were brainstorming sessions with suggestions galore coming from the enthusiastic team. This group of ten became the first set of editors with N. Mukunda as the chief editor, five associate editors, one in each discipline covered by the journal, and a number of editors. On the suggestion of Professor P. Rama Rao, the then President of the Academy, a large number of editors from outside Bangalore were requested to join the editorial board. The editors in Bangalore attended editorial board meetings and those outside Bangalore were invited to attend if they happened to be in Bangalore.
Organization of the Journal There was consensus among the editors that the articles in the journal should be interesting and comprehensible to undergraduates and to highly motivated higher secondary school/preuniversity students. Articles in chemistry, physics, mathematics, biological sciences, computer science, and engineering were to be included in each issue. It was decided that each issue would highlight the work of one great scientist who is no longer with us. We felt that the “scientist of the month” would form the theme for an issue with around two articles on the biography and contributions of the scientist. It was also agreed that one of the editors would
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undertake the responsibility to either write the article(s) or identify appropriate scientists familiar with the work of the “scientist of the month” to write these articles. It was also decided that the articles in an issue would be categorized as General articles, Series articles and Feature articles. A series author would take up a topic and expand it into a number of articles preferably in successive issues of the journal. A Feature article was also like a series on a specific topic, but written by different authors each month. For example, a Feature article that appeared in the early issues was titled Molecule of the Month. A category called Article-in-a-Box was intro
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