Hosur Narasimhaiah was conferred the Padma Bhushan award by the Government of India in 1984.
39 Facts About Hosur Narasimhaiah
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Hosur Narasimhaiah was arrested and imprisoned for about nine months.
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Hosur Narasimhaiah finished his bachelor's degree with physics honours in 1944, and master's degree in 1946.
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Hosur Narasimhaiah was immediately recruited to the faculty of physics at the National College, Bangalore, where he taught until 1957.
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Hosur Narasimhaiah went for doctoral research in the United States and earned a PhD in 1960 in nuclear physics from Ohio State University.
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Hosur Narasimhaiah became the Vice-Chancellor of the Bangalore University in 1972, the post he held until his resignation in 1977.
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Hosur Narasimhaiah went on to serve in the Karnataka Legislative Council.
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Hosur Narasimhaiah was the founder of the Bangalore Science Forum.
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Hosur Narasimhaiah is so far the only Indian to become elected Fellow of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal.
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Hosur Narasimhaiah was born in Hossur, a village near Gauribidanur in Karnataka, India.
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Hosur Narasimhaiah's father was a village school teacher, and mother, a labourer.
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Hosur Narasimhaiah completed his elementary education in the primary school, which had no further studies beyond eighth standard.
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Hosur Narasimhaiah stayed with his headmaster for six months, until he could get allotment in the school hostel, the Poor Boys' Home, as he called it.
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Hosur Narasimhaiah met with Mahatma Gandhi when the latter visited the National High School in 1936.
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Hosur Narasimhaiah's teacher selected him to be the interpreter of Gandhi's Hindi speech into Kannada.
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Hosur Narasimhaiah earned his MSc in physics with first class from the Central College in 1946.
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Hosur Narasimhaiah received his PhD degree in nuclear physics from the Ohio State University in 1960.
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Hosur Narasimhaiah's thesis was The Radioactive Decay of Hafnium and Thulium Isotopes.
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Hosur Narasimhaiah became the fourth Vice-Chancellor of the Bangalore University from 1972, and was reappointed in 1975.
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Hosur Narasimhaiah remained in office until 1977, during this time he introduced psychology, social work, drama, music and dance as new subjects.
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Hosur Narasimhaiah went on to serve the Karnataka Legislative Council.
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Hosur Narasimhaiah was considered as champion of humanism and atheism in India.
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Hosur Narasimhaiah's body was kept in the National High School for public viewing.
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Hosur Narasimhaiah was cremated, as he had willed, at Hossur with a state official funeral the same day evening.
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Hosur Narasimhaiah wrote a collection of essays titled Tereda Mana and an autobiography named Horaatada Haadi.
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Hosur Narasimhaiah personally wrote three letters to Sai Baba asking him to publicly demonstrate the miracles under controlled conditions.
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In 1985, Hosur Narasimhaiah challenged a godman, Shivabalayogi, who claimed that he could let down rain by praying.
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Hosur Narasimhaiah did not perform tonsure upon the death of his father.
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Hosur Narasimhaiah would eat food during a solar eclipse to demonstrate that it does not cause indigestion, as Hindus believed to be so and would fast.
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Hosur Narasimhaiah did inaugurate the procession at Dasara, a festival with homage to Goddess Chamundeshwari, in 2004.
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Hosur Narasimhaiah's famous quote is: A poor teacher complains, an average teacher explains, a good teacher teaches, a great teacher inspires.
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Hosur Narasimhaiah was conferred the Padma Bhushan in 1984, the third highest civilian awards instituted by the Government of India, for his services in literature and education.
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Hosur Narasimhaiah received the Tamrapatra award for his participation in the Indian Freedom Struggle.
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Hosur Narasimhaiah was the only Indian to be elected Fellow of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, set up by Paul Kurtz in the USA.
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Hosur Narasimhaiah received the Sahitya Akademi book prizes for his books Horaatada Haadi and Tereda Mana.
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Hosur Narasimhaiah was awarded the Rajyotsava Prashasti, the second highest civilian honour, and Basava Puraskara of the Karnataka state government.
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Hosur Narasimhaiah became the head of a legislature committee which investigated banamathi in some villages of northern Karnataka.
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Hosur Narasimhaiah's committee concluded that there was no such thing.
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Hosur Narasimhaiah was awarded by the then Prime Minister of India, Atal Behari Vajpayee.