1. Editorial

   • N. Mukunda

   Departments Pages: 1 - 1

2. J. J. Thomson — A ‘thinking’ experimentalist

   • Rohini Godbole

   Departments Pages: 2 - 4

3. Science smiles

   • R. K. Laxman

   Departments Pages: 5 - 5

4. Subatomic physics — 100 not out and still going strong!

   • Avinash Khare

   General Article Pages: 8 - 16

5. Electrons in condensed matter

   • T. V. Ramakrishnan

   General Article Pages: 17 - 32

6. Ohm’s law, Kirchoff’s law and the Drunkard’s walk

   • Rahul Roy

   General Article Pages: 33 - 38

7. Transistors — From point contact to single electron

   • D. N. Bose

   General Article Pages: 39 - 54

8. Seeing with electrons

   • A. K. Raychaudhuri

   General Article Pages: 55 - 65

9. Electrons in molecules

   • B. M. Deb

   General Article Pages: 66 - 76

10. Electron transfer in chemistry and biology — The primary events in photosynthesis

    • V. Krishnan

    General Article Pages: 77 - 86

11. Solution to puzzling rectangles (Resonance, August 1997)

    • K. R. Manjunath
    • Ch. Sunil

    Departments Pages: 87 - 88

12. What are the shapes off-orbitals?

    • K. L. Sebastian

    Departments Pages: 88 - 91

13. Cathode rays

    • Frkderick Bramwell
    • J. J. Thomson

    Departments Pages: 92 - 106

14. The theory of positrons

    • R. P. Frynman

    Departments Pages: 107 - 107

15. The Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, 1997

    • Vidyanand Nanjundiah

    Research News Pages: 108 - 112

16. Acknowledgements

    Acknowledgments Pages: 112 - 112