Mambillikalathil Govind Kumar Menon

摘要

M. G. K. Menon is more than a brilliant physicist. If we can call Homi Jahangir Bhabha the architect of modern scientific and technological India, then Menon can be considered as the builder who grasped the significance of the plans, assiduously worked on them and oversaw the construction of the first important stages of the superstructure. In this effort, he was aided by his sterling human qualities and quick and intuitive perception of the strength and capabilities in others, whom he could persuade to join in the effort to build an intellectually and technologically strong India. Apart from this, to borrow a phrase from V. Radhakrishnan, he is the most eminent ‘statesman of science’ we have in India.