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Insult thwarted 1934 bid to raise profile of Indian science

March 1998
Nature 392(6672)

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Ill-tempered remarks by an unnamed British professor at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore in the 1930s about the motivation of scientists fleeing Hitler's Germany may have deprived India of a "golden opportunity" to boost its world status as a scientific nation.

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