I’m privileged to see apparatus Jagadish Bose used: Yonath

Kolkata: Nobel Laureate chemist Prof. Ada E. Yonath on Thursday said she was privileged to see the instruments that were used by Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose at the Bose Institute Museum.

Ms Yonath, who was here to address the 79th Acharya J.C. Bose Memorial Lecture, visited the museum of the Institute founded by J.C. Bose in 1917. “Thanks for showing me the very interesting museum,” Yonath wrote in the visitors’ book after taking a look around various galleries at the century-old building.

A spokesman of the museum said Ms Yonath was shown some instruments such as photosynthetic bubbler, automatic recorder of root growth, Bose’s self-designed apparatus to study responses in living and non-living, oscillating plate phytograph, response recorder, the compound lever crescograph and microwave apparatus. She was also shown other memorabilia of J.C. Bose. “I am privileged to be here,” Ms Yonath, who had received the Nobel Prize in chemistry along with Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas A. Steitz in 2009 for her studies on the structure and function of the ribosome, said.

Ms Yonath, associated with the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, delivered the lecture on “Next Generation Environmental Friendly Antibiotics” on the concluding day of the 101st Foundation Day Celebration of the premier institute.