30-06-2025
BV Sreekantan 100th birth anniversary: Tributes paid to Karnataka-born cosmic ray physicist
His most significant scientific achievement was his leadership in the Kolar Gold Fields (KGF) underground experiments, which led to one of the world's first detections of atmospheric neutrinos in the mid-1960s—an accomplishment that preceded similar detections in Japan (Masatoshi Koshiba's Nobel Prize-winning works) and Italy.
