C.N.Pillai

C.N.Pillai (Chandrasekhara Narayana Pillai) was born in 1934 in Kerala, India. After an early education in India, he travelled to the USA for higher studies and research in chemistry, in 1955. After acquiring a Ph.D. from North-western University, Evanston, Illinois, he returned to India in 1961. The onward and return journeys were by ship. In India, after a brief stint in the industry, he joined the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. Engaged himself in teaching and research for more than 30 years, guided the Ph.D. work of more than twenty students, published more than 100 research papersRead More...


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A collection of more than thirty short articles describing the author’s experiences during an eventful life of more than eighty years as a scientist and as a world traveler, presented fluently and with subdued humour. You read about the author’s travel to the USA by cargo ship at the young age of 22, his experiences as a student and the contrast between life in the USA in the 1950’s and today. Read about his travels to various countries and his belief th

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