MAPS Laboratory
Materials’(Ma) Process(P) - Structure(S) correlations Laboratory
Welcome to
Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Patna (IIT Patna)
© MAPS Laboratory 2020|Developed by Sravan, Annu & Lakshaman|
Funding agencies
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'Hard science’ relies on Solid, Reproducible facts
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Reproducible experiments connecting cause and effect, which is repeated several times depending how extraordinary new facts are, and is repeated in other labs
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Explanation or theories are not necessarily a part of ‘hard science’. They come later and change frequently. They do not alter the facts.
Founder Director, Materials Research Laboratory, (1962) at Penn State Univ., USA
B.Sc. (Patna Science College) & M.Sc. (Patna University) (1942, 1944)
Ph.D. Penn State, USA (1948)
Our Philosophy of work: Quotes
“The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts
as to discover new ways of thinking about them.”
- Sir William Lawrence Bragg (Nobel Prize in Physics, 1915)
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“The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment.”
- Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (Nobel Prize in Physics, 1930)
"It must be splendid to command millions of people in great national ventures, to lead a hundred thousand to victory in battle. But it seems to me greater still to discover fundamental truths in a very modest room with very modest means - truths that will still be foundations of human knowledge when the memory of these battles is painstakingly preserved only in the archives of the historian."
- Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann (1844-1906)
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