GOKU’s QUESTS
Moved but undeterred
Goku first blazed the
trail
Of tutored multilingual
And metered knowledge.
While quests arose in his
Formative but sharp mind,
Does one grasp and
harmonize
The vibrant hormones
And nerves' communes
To do service to the
sapiens?
Or take to non-Euclidean domains
With cosmic paradigms
And tensored codes to
track
Fundamental inexactitudes?
There! the laureate
stepped in
As if from the vivid blue
sky
'Be bold' he said
radiantly
'Probe deep into basics
And you do have the mettle
To delineate any quantum
muddle'.
Galvanized, Goku
packed his bags
With dedication,
probity
Inspiration and joy
And strode forth into the
realm
Of leptons, gluons, quarks
and photons
And bosons with neutrinos
anti and pro.
Armed with photogenic
ideas stacked thick
To fly high and track the
Jekyll and Hyde
Of strong weak duos of Ks
and mews
At Bristol, Mumbai, Deccan
and Delhi.
Flourished as an inspired
coworker,
Mentor, friend,
philosopher, guide
And leader unparalleled
and bigger
Than numerous decorations
conferred.
Blessed be his name, as we
are blessed too
By the shining star, now
in his heavenly abode.
(In revered memory of the
great Indian Scientist, Prof. M G K Menon)
Mambillikalathil Govind Kumar Menon was a high energy particle physicist from India known for his pioneering scientific contributions to nuclear emulsion techniques, his elucidation of the properties of strange particles (“leptons, gluons, quarks and photons / And bosons with neutrinos anti and pro / …. Of strong weak duos of Ks and mews”), and his high-altitude balloon flight studies of cosmic rays near the geomagnetic equator as well as deep underground experiments with cosmic ray neutrinos in the mines at Kolar Gold Field. Educated at Jaswant College, Jodhpur, and the Royal Institute of Science, Bombay, he received hid PhD in elementary particle physics at the University of Bristol under the guidance of Nobel Laureate Cecil F. Powell, who developed the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and discovered the pion (pi-meson). He was the director of the Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in Mumbai and held various scientific positions for the Indian government in the areas of electronics, environment, new energy, space, and defense. As secretary of the Department of Science and Technology he masterminded the nation’s 1983 Technology Policy.
ReplyDeleteJekyll and Hyde was a character created by Robert Louis Stevenson in his 1886 novella, "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde." The author was inspired by a dream and wrote the tale continuously over a three-day period, while he was bedridden due to a hemorrhage. The story concerns Dr. Henry Jekyll, who had invented a serum to suppress his evil urges, which transformed him into the demonic Edward Hyde. The book sold some 40,000 copies in its first six months, and 250,000 in the US by 1901, spawning over 120 stahe and cinematic adaptations.