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IT required the lessons of the Great War to bring home to those engaged in industry in Great Britain the benefits which accrue from scientific research. It speaks therefore highly of the acumen of the Parsee merchant, the late Mr. J. N. Tata, that forty years ago he proposed to endow an all-India Research Institute. After a careful consideration of the schemes drawn up by Sir William Ramsay, and by Sir David Masson and Colonel Clibborn, his plan came to fruition; and on a site at Hebbal, near Bangalore, given by the Government of Mysore, it was decided to proceed with the erection of the Institute. Unfortunately, Mr. Tata died in 1904, but his sons, the late Sir D. J. Tata and Sir R. J. Tata, gave effect to his wishes, and in 1906 the first director, Dr. Morris W. Travers, was appointed.
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The Indian Institute of Science. Nature 138, 945–947 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138945a0
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