Professor K C Kar was an outstanding theoretical physicist and an eminent and dedicated educationist, who had
spent most of his formal working period as a teacher in Presidency College ( now known as Presidency
University), Kolkata, with some short stints at Scottish Church College, Kolkata and Serampore College and
Rajshahi College. This part of his life spanned three decades of twentieth century
extending from the early
twenties to the mid-fifties.His active life, however, extended well beyond that. He converted his residence at
Mohan Bagan Lane, Kolkata to a small working institution which he named “Institute of Theoretical Physics”
and initiated the publication of a journal titled “ Indian Journal of Theoretical Physics” in 1953. The Institute
that he founded is still functional and is known as “ Calcutta Institute of Theoretical Physics”. Kar has been
an inspiring figure for generations of aspiring physicists and certainly one of that elite group of Bengali scientists
who made science in Bengal competitive with the rest of the world at times which can be described as
“difficult”. Kulesh Chandra Kar was very much interested in research and came in contact with Professor C V Raman from
whom he received encouragement to carry out research in Indian Musical Instruments in 1922.Next he turned
attention towards statistical mechanics and soon mastered over the subject. His researches in theoretical
physics covered over a wide spectrum of subjects like Acoustic Physics, Wave statistics, Nuclear and Particle
Physics,and Theory of Relativity. During his career he published 123 scientific papers in different journals of
national and international repute. He also published five books on some special topics of Physics for advanced
learners. K C Kar. To celebrate this special occasion we have
planned to organize 2-days National Conference where distinguished scientists from different research
institutes of India will be invited to present some current topics.
