Mambillikalathil Govind Kumar Menon

Mambillikalathil Govind Kumar Menon (August 28, 1928 – November 22, 2016), also known as M. G. K. Menon, is a physicist and policy maker from India. He has had a role in almost every facet of science and technology development in India during the past four decades but the important one was nurturing the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, which his mentor Homi J. Bhabha founded in 1945.

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• From its earliest days, science has been embedded in society, there has been a continuous learning process in society as a whole, based on day to day experiences and this can become the body of the knowledge from which applications and understanding have grown. … Everything on earth has to function in harmony as a system, and it is only in such a system that humanity can flourish.
  • in Impact of Advances in science and new technologies on society, 1998.