The Indian Institute of Science was established on 27 May 1909 in Bangalore, on land donated by the Mysore royal family, realising an idea the industrialist Jamsetji Tata had proposed in the 1890s; Tata died in 1904, five years before the institute he had conceived actually opened, and its opening depended on joint support from the Government of India and the Maharaja of Mysore as well as Tata's own fortune. Its first director, appointed 1909, was the English chemist Morris Travers; the physicist C.V. Raman, already a Nobel laureate, became its first Indian director in 1933 and served until 1937, using the post to build a physics department that trained a generation of Indian scientists including Homi Bhabha, later the founder of India's nuclear programme. It remains India's leading institution for scientific and engineering research.
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Founded Year FounderJamsetji Tata, with the Government of India and the Mysore royal family 1 SeatBangalore (Bengaluru), India 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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C.V. Raman, Scientists First Indian director, 1933 to 1937, already a Nobel laureate on arrival.
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