Before we announce the big day for MMF’s anniversary and Maharashtra Din Celebrations, we extend many congratulations to Prasad Joshi who obtained a PhD degree from the Paris University on the subject: “Isolation and reactivity of hydroxyl radical with astrochemically and atmospherically relevant species studied by Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR)”.
This is really a great achievent as Prasad completed his PhD within only 31 months. Here’s a picture of Prasad defending his thesis which was witnessed by some MMF members too.
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Now for the Celebration of Maharashtra Day 2012 on 19th May. Pls. see the following excellent brochure prepared by Sandeep Aparajit.
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