About Us Founded on July by Dr Mahendra Lal Sircar IACS is the oldest institute in India devoted to the pursuit of fundamental research in the frontier areas of basic sciences Professor C V Raman worked at IACS during to and it is here that he discovered the celebrated Effect that bears his name and for which he was awarded Nobel Prize in Physics in Activities of the Association at Bowbazar Street Calcutta in the very early years were supported by generous public contributions It was conceived and planned in the backdrop of the great cultural and intellectual awakening of the nineteenth century Bengal and was desired by its founder to be an institution solely native and purely national intellectual The original objective of the Association which continues even today was to cultivate science in all its departments with a view to its advancement by original research and its varied applications to the Read More