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The Gulmarg Observatory

JUN 01, 1954
Physics Today

INDIA';S high‐altitude research laboratory in the Himalayas at Gulmarg, established some two years ago under the joint auspices of the Muslim University at Aligarh and the University of Jammu and Kashmir, was formally opened on April 4th of this year during ceremonies attended by a visiting physicist from America, Nobel Laureate Arthur H. Compton. The director of the laboratory, Professor P. S. Gill of Aligarh University, observed that it was only fitting that Professor Compton declare the observatory open since he had been the first to initiate the study of cosmic rays in India, having carried out a program of measurements at Tosh Maidan in Kashmir almost thirty years ago.

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