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Take up a career in science, students told

Staff Reporter

`Scientific thinking is not being inculcated in students'

BANGALORE: The Director of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Satellite Centre, P.S. Goel, on Friday advised students to take up a career science.

Speaking at the inauguration of an exhibition on `The World of Astronomical Observatories,' Mr. Goel regretted that students these days are not interested in science.

"Everyone wants to take up a career in information technology. But IT does not need the best of brains. It needs only good brains.

All the best brains should embrace science and take up a career in it for the future of the country," he said.

Scientific thinking

The chairman of the Visvesvaraya Industrial Technological Museum, Vijay Kumar Gupta, expressed displeasure that scientific thinking was not being inculcated in students these days. "I have seen my own children memorise experiments. They should be allowed to conduct experiments and record the results. I hope this exhibition will enthuse children to study science," he said.

Discoveries

The Director-General of National Council of Science Museums, I.K. Mukherjee, said the exhibition briefly narrates the story of observational astronomy from the Stone Age to the space age. "With this year being earmarked as the World Year of Physics, the exhibition has models explaining the path-breaking discoveries of the last century. This is to pay tribute to the great men of physics," he said.

Techniques

Various techniques and tools adopted for celestial observations over the years have been brought out through interesting models and simulations.

Starting from the ancient astronomical practices and concepts of the universe by various civilisations, the exhibition takes a person through the basic principles of observation and the technology involved with it. An interactive model of particle accelerator, an exhibit that simulates the bending of light as predicted by Einstein, a cloud chamber enabling visitors to see the cosmic ray tracks in real time and displays on the much talked about `dark matter' and the proposed telescopes that could see them are among those displayed at the exhibition.

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