Professor Ajay Sood from the Department of Physics at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has been elected as one of the fellows of The Royal Society. Sood and his team have designed Field Effect Transistors (FETs) using materials like carbon nanotubes, graphene, Molybdenum disulphide and black phosphorus and superconductors. The team has also recently designed a protein detector that was made from optical fibre Bragg grating. They have used this device to detect a protein called CRP which is a marker for heart attacks in the human body.
What is Royal Society?
- The Royal Society was founded in November 1660.
- It is a learned society for science, and is possibly the oldest such society still in existence.
- Sir Paul Nurse is the current President of Royal Society.
- The Society’s motto is Nullius in verba, which means “Take nobody’s word for it”.
- About 8,000 Fellows have been elected to the Royal Society of London since its inception in 1660.
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