Dr Quazi Motahar Hossain was one of the most respected teachers of this country. He is well-known for his involvement in such a diversity of fields that lesser mortals can only be awestruck when counting them. He was close to Quazi Nazrul Islam and on several occasions tried to bring his errant friend back...
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Uncertain principles
Prizes: noble and ignoble
This year the announcements for the big prize carried the amazing information that one of the recipients had also won the rather less respectable counterpart called the Ig Nobel Prize some years back. Dr Geim of Manchester University had on that occasion levitated a frog on a magnetic field for whatever reason, and the...
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