Publications of Dr Jayanta Sthanapati (1974-2022 July)

A.      History of Science

1.      1.  Sthanapati, Jayanta and S.N. Sen. “History of Magnetic Studies in India 1850-1980: A Bibliography” Indian J. History of Science 30 (1995) S1-S204; 31 (1996) S205-S302; S203-S336; S337-S400. [Published as a Book by Indian National Science Academy in 2004].

 2.       Sthanapati, Jayanta. “Geomagnetic Studies in the 19th Century British India” Propagation 1 (2010) 77-80. [Propagation is a biannual peer-reviewed journal of Science Communication published by the National Council of Science Museums, Kolkata, India].

 3.       Sthanapati, Jayanta and Kunal Chattopadhyay. “World War II and its Impact on the Studies of Magnetic Resonance: 1939-1973” Propagation. 1 (2010) 115-123.

 4.       Sthanapati, Jayanta and Kunal Chattopadhyay. “Scientific Discoveries, Technological Innovations and Modern Warfare” Propagation. 2 (2011) 91-110.

 5.       Sthanapati, Jayanta. “Rise of Fascist and Nazi Totalitarianism, Migration of Scientists and Creation of Atomic Bomb” Propagation. 3 (2012) 67-80.

 6.       Sthanapati, Jayanta. “March towards a hunger-free India” Science and Culture, 79 9-10 (2013)  347-354.

 7.       Sthanapati, Jayanta. “Impact of the Second World War on Studies of Magnetic Resonance: 1939-1973” Accepted PhD Thesis of the Department of History, Jadavpur University (2013).

8.       Sthanapati, Jayanta. “History of Science Museums and Planetariums in India: Project Report” Accepted research work. Indian National Science Academy (2016). Indian Journal of History of Science 52.3 (2017) 357-368.

9.       Sthanapati, Jayanta. “Samarendra Nath Sen – The Doyen of Research in the History of Science in India” Science and Culture, 85 11-12 (2019)  368-372.

 

10.   Sthanapati, Jayanta. “Book Review: D.M. Bose – His Life, Science and Connection with Global Elites” Science and Culture, 86 1-2 (2020)  55-56.

B.      Science Museums and Planetariums

 1.  Sthanapati, Jayanta. “Development of Science Museums in India and Training of Curators” Proceedings of the International Seminar on 'Museum Training as Career-long Learning in a Changing World.' Organised by ICOM Committee for the Training of Personnel. August 5-10, 1990. Smithsonian Institution. Washington D.C. USA.

 2.       Sthanapati, Jayanta (Ed.). “Birla Industrial and Technological Museum: 1959-2009”. A Book published by the National Council of Science Museums, Kolkata, India. (2009) 1-71.

 3.       Sthanapati, Jayanta and Indranil Sanyal. “Fifty Golden Years. BITM – From Dream to Reality” in the Birla Industrial and Technological Museum: 1959-2009. NCSM publication. (2009) 13-29.

 4.       Sthanapati, Jayanta. “Pioneers of Science Centre Movement” in Nehru Science Centre – Silver Jubilee Celebrations. NCSM publication. (2010) 17-21.

5.       Sthanapati, Jayanta. “Science Museums – Human Resource Development – University Collaboration” Journal of the Dept. of Museology, University of Calcutta. Golden Jubilee Special Issue (2010) 93-99.

6.       Dhaulakhandi, V.N. and Jayanta Sthanapati. “Remembering Ved Prakash Beri: an artist who created one of the early science museums in India” Propagation. 4 (2013) 9-14.

 7.       Sthanapati, Jayanta. “M.P. Birla planetarium – Fifty Years of Peering at The Skies” Science Reporter 50 (07) (2013) 28-30.

 8.       Sthanapati, Jayanta. “Beginning of Science Museums and Planetariums in India – Contribution of Ramanatha Subramanian” Propagation 5 (2014) 19-27.

9.       Sthanapati, Jayanta and N.T. Kasar. “India’s first Planetarium turns Sixty” Science Reporter 51 (10) (2014) 34-36.

 10.   Sthanapati, Jayanta. “A Brief History of Regional Science Centre Bhubaneswar” Science Horizon (Odisha Bigyan Academy) 4 (8) (2014) 39-43.

11.   Sthanapati, Jayanta. “Planetariums in Girls’ Schools in India” Dream 2047 17 (May 2015) 30-31.

 12.   Sthanapati, Jayanta. “Fifty Years of Mobile Science Exhibition in India” Dream 2047 18 (Dec 2015) 33-34.

13.   Sthanapati, Jayanta. “The Exploratorium exhibits recreated worldwide for outdoor science parks” Propagation 6 (2015) 81-95.

14.   Sthanapati, Jayanta. “The Physics Playground” Science Reporter 53 (02) (2016) 25-28.

15.   Sthanapati, Jayanta. “Planetariums in India: Domes by the numbers” Planetarian 45 (01) (2016) 48,53,54,56.

16.   Sthanapati, Jayanta. “Mobile Science Exhibition in India: 1965-2014” Journal of the Dept. of Museology, University of Calcutta 11 & 12 (2016) 40-62.

17.   Sthanapati, Jayanta. “An interview with Dr S.M. Nair, founder Director of the National Museum of Natural History”, Science India (June 2016) 35-39.

18.   Sthanapati, Jayanta. “When history was gutted” Science Reporter 53 (07) (2016) 21-24. 

19.   Sthanapati, Jayanta. “Two Hundred Years of Natural History Museums in India” Dream 2047 19 (Oct 2016) 30-32.

20.   Sthanapati, Jayanta. “India’s first Science City turns 20” Dream 2047 19 (Nov 2016) 22, 32-34.

21.   Sthanapati, Jayanta. “National Science Centre turns Twenty-Five” Science Reporter 54 (1) (2017) 44-46. 

22.   Sthanapati, Jayanta. “Vigyan Udyan – The First Science Park of Delhi” Souvenir on Silver Jubilee Celebration of National Science Centre Delhi (2017) 31-35. 

23.   Sthanapati, Jayanta. “Project Report: History of Science Museums and Planetariums in India.” Indian Journal of History of Science 52.3 (2017) 357-368.  

24.   Sthanapati, Jayanta. “Science Museums and Planetariums on Islands of India” Dream 2047 19 (Oct 2017) 32-34.

25.   Sthanapati, Jayanta. “HAL Aerospace Museum in Bengaluru”. Science Reporter 54 (10) (2017) 22-25.

26.   Sthanapati, Jayanta. “Planetarios na India” (Planetariums in India). Planetaria No. 21 (2018) 12-15. [In Portuguese]. 

27.   Sthanapati, Jayanta. “BITM – The Mother Museum Turns Sixty”. Science Reporter 56 (05) (2019) 41-43. 

28.   Sthanapati, Jayanta. “BITM Turns Sixty: A Journey Through History”. Diamond Jubilee publication of BITM (2019) 2-36. 

29.   Sthanapati, Jayanta (Ed.). “Birla Industrial and Technological Museum: 1959-2019”. A Book published by the National Council of Science Museums, Kolkata, India. (2019) 1-56. 

30.   Sthanapati, Jayanta. “Regional Science Centre Bhubaneswar: A Brief History”. 30th Anniversary publication of RSC Bhubaneswar by CRTL of NCSM (2019) 10-25. 

31.   Sthanapati, Jayanta. “Dhenkanal Science Centre and Kapilas Science Park Turn Twenty-five”. Science Horizon (Odisha Bigyan Academy), 10 (8) (2020) 33-39.  

32.   Sthanapati, Jayanta and Gautam Seal. “Saroj Ghose and Museums of Science, Technology and History in India”. A publication of BITM on the occasion of the 85^th Birth Anniversary of Dr Saroj Ghose (2020) 1-16. 

33.   Sthanapati, Jayanta. “Dr Saroj Ghose Turns Eighty-Five” (in Bangla). Bijnan Mela, 40 (6) (Sept-Oct 2020) 8. 

34.   Kumar Samarendra and Jayanta Sthanapati. “The Kurukshetra War – A Panorama in a Science Museum”. Sasthra -The Indian Journal of Science and Technology, 2 (3) (2021) 12-21. 

35.   Sthanapati, Jayanta. “Michael Faraday and the Dawn of Electrical Age”. Sasthra -The Indian Journal of Science and Technology, 2 (5) (2021) 12-19. 

36.   Sthanapati, Jayanta. “Bicentenary of Michael Faraday’s Electric Motor”. Dream 2047 24 (Oct 2021) 3-6. 

37.   Sthanapati, Jayanta. “Kolkata – The Cradle of Science Museums in India”. Bijnan Mela, March-April 2022. pp 4-7. 

38.   Sthanapati, Jayanta. “Science City – Landmark of Kolkata Turns 25”. Science Reporter 59 (07) (2022) 38-41. 

39.   Sthanapati, Jayanta. “The Beginning of Science City Kolkata in My Perspective” Silver Jubilee Publication of Science City Kolkata (2022) 25-28. 

40.   Sthanapati, Jayanta. "My Reminiscence of Digha Science Centre" Commemorating Silver Jubilee:  Digha Science Centre and National Science Camp 1997-2022 (2022) 9-11. 

C.      Magnetic Resonance 

1.      Dey, D.K, A.K. Ghoshal, J. Sthanapati and A.K. Pal. “Jahn-Teller Effects in EPR of a square planner copper complex” Physics Letters. 62A (1977) 265-266. 

2.       Pal, A.K. and J. Sthanapati.  “EPR studies on the low-temperature phase of a cooperative Jahn-Teller system” Proc. Nuclear Phys. Solid State Phys. Symposium (India). 22C (1979) 607-608. 

3.     Ghosal, A.K, D.K. Dey, J. Sthanapati, D. Pal and A.K. Pal. “Single crystal magnetic studies on the γ-form of bis N-methyl salicyl aldimine copper (II)”   Physica Status Solidi (a) 65 (1981) K157-161. 

S    Sthanapati, J, D.K. De and A.K. Pal. “Studies on phase transitions in cobalt and ferrous fluosilicates by Cu (II) EPR” Physica Status Solidi. (a) 68 (1981) K123-127. 

5.       Sthanapati, J. and A.K. Pal. “EPR of tetradentate ligand coordinated ethylene-bis-guanidine copper (II) chloride monohydrate” J. Chem. Phys. 77 (1982) 3289-3290.

D    De, D.K, J. Sthanapati, A.K. Ghoshal and A.K. Pal. “Electron paramagnetic resonance study of copper (II) fluosilicate hexahydrate” J. Magn. Reson.  47 (1982) 181-186.

 

D.      Instrumentation 

1.       Bose, A, J. Sthanapati, A.K. Ghoshal, D. Pal and A.K. Pal. “A simple inexpensive cryogenic liquid level controller” Cryogenics. 14 (1974) 577.

2.       Sthanapati, J. and S.N. Bhattacharyya. “An inexpensive temperature regulator for the range 77-300 K” Cryogenics. 16 (1976) 735.

St Sthanapati, J, A.K. Ghoshal, D.K. Dey, A.K. Pal and S.N. Bhattacharyya. “An inexpensive phase sensitive detector system for wide-line NMR/ESR Instrumentation” J. Phys. E: Scientific Instruments. 10 (1977) 26-27.

 Sthanapati, J, A.K. Ghoshal, D.K. Dey, A.K. Pal and S.N. Bhattacharyya. “A current-regulated magnet power supply for magnetic resonance and susceptibility studies” J. Phys. E: Scientific Instruments. 10 (1977) 221-222.