Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

She carried on her use of photographic methods for particle research, though this time camera-based ones, to observe air showers in cloud chambers.

In 1949, she joined the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Bombay, where she was in charge of the cloud chamber group.

After brief stints in Calcutta, France, and the United States, in the late 1950s, Chaudhuri started working at the Physical Research Laboratory in Ahmedabad, where she was a key scientist in the Kolar Gold Field Project, detecting and studying high-energy muons associated with extensive air showers hundreds of feet underground, this time with a neon flash tube technique.

Retiring from the Physical Research Laboratory in 1976, Chaudhuri returned to Calcutta and continued her research with track detection technologies rather than the photographic methods that had defined the beginning of her career.

He pumped me out to one of his post-docs, and one of his post-docs who supervised effectively the first couple of years of my PhD was a young astrophysicist from India.

And, uh, so I spent a bit of time in Bombay at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research working with him, m- most of the time in Durham, and we worked on star formation and galaxy evolution, and a little bit of Big Bang cosmology.

So explain perhaps to our listeners who are not understanding that, what is the difference between astronomy and astrophysics?

Well, the two overlap.

The Institute of Science in 1909.

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.

Tata Power in 1910.

These institutions became part of India's industrial development, the core of it, okay? The Tata name has been present in Indian households and communities across generations.