Indian Institute of Science (IISc) gave rise to many industries, some of which are still around. Its scientists were instrumental in setting up and leading many of India’s independent PSUs. <\/span><\/p>\n It also counts among the world\u2019s leading institutions of scientific research.<\/span><\/p>\n Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is a public, deemed, research university for higher education and research in science, engineering, design, and management.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It was\u00a0established in 1909 by a visionary partnership between the industrialist Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata, the Mysore royal family and the Government of India.<\/p>\n The institute <\/span>was granted the deemed to be university status in 1958 and the <\/span>Institute of Eminence<\/span> status<\/span><\/a> in 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n Location of the Institute:\u00a0<\/b>Bengaluru,Karnataka.<\/span><\/p>\n During World War II, IISc contributed towards the war effort by training personnel, manufacturing military and industrial goods, and collaborating with Hindustan Aircraft Limited to repair and maintain British and American warplanes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n IISc counts among its former students and faculty several eminent scientists such as Homi J Bhabha, the founder of India\u2019s nuclear program, Vikram Sarabhai, the founder of India\u2019s space programme, solid state and materials scientist CNR Rao among others.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>This post is based on the article \u201c<\/b>This science flagship started India\u2019s industrial revolution<\/b>\u201d <\/b>published in TOI <\/b>on 23rd November 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the news? Indian Institute of Science (IISc) gave rise to many industries, some of which are still around. Its scientists were instrumental in setting up and leading many of India’s independent PSUs. It also counts among the world\u2019s leading institutions of scientific research. About Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Indian Institute of Science… Continue reading This science flagship started India\u2019s industrial revolution<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704680459},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}About <\/b>Indian Institute of Science (IISc)<\/b><\/h5>\n
What is the historical significance of IISc?<\/b><\/h5>\n
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