About Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS):
- Founded in 1876, by Mahendra Lal Sircar, IACS is the oldest institute in India devoted to the pursuit of fundamental research in the frontier areas of basic sciences.
- Location: Kolkata.
- It became the first research institution in Asia established by Indians for the cultivation of modern scientific research.
- Over the decades, it has served as the intellectual home for several legendary Indian scientists, including:
- Sir C.V. Raman
- Jagadish Chandra Bose
- Meghnad Saha
- N. Bose
- Professor C.V. Raman worked at IACS from 1907 to 1933, and it is here that he discovered the celebrated Raman Effect, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930.
- It is funded by the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, and the Government of West Bengal.
- Apart from fundamental research in the various frontier areas of physics and chemistry, IACS has ventured in a significant way, for the past few years, into the emerging multidisciplinary areas such as non-conventional energy sources, advanced and novel nanomaterials, chemical biology, and interdisciplinary sciences.
