Mysuru: M.B. Mahesh, a resident of Vidyaranyapuram in city, has been awarded the Raman Experiential Science Teacher (REST) Award, an All India hands-on Science contest. This Award was for his submission titled "Mystery of Human Ear." The model Mahesh designed and submitted for the Award was made with easily available materials at the cost of less than Rs. 50.
The Award was presented to him in Bengaluru at Panchavati (Sir C.V. Raman’s old home in Malleswaram) by Dominique Radhakrishnan, daughter-in-law of Sir C.V. Raman. Dominique is the wife of Prof. Venkatraman Radhakrishnan, a distinguished Astrophysicist credited with expanding the field of radio astronomy and for research in pulsars, interstellar clouds and various celestial bodies.
