Raj Nivas celebrated International Day of Science for Women and Girls with a photo exhibition highlighting women scientists and their achievements on Tuesday.
Among those featured were algebraic number theorist Sujatha Ramdorai, Nobel laureate and optical physicist Donna Strickland, biotechnology entrepreneur Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, crystallographer Ada E. Yonath, chemist Faiza Al-Kharafi, oceanographer Aditi Pant, Nobel laureate in physics Maria Goeppert Mayer and computer scientist Grace Hopper.
Lt. Governor Kiran Bedi said that since Puducherry lacked a formal science forum, a group comprising current science students as members and teachers as managers was formed.
“A beginning has been made in this direction”, Ms. Bedi said.
