When Nobel Laureate Niels Bohr visited India in January 1960 as the guest of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Alladi Ramakrishnan invited Professor and Mrs. Bohr to Ekamra Nivas to meet the students of the Theoretical Physics Seminar and for dinner. Ramakrishnan says in his memoirs: "... In January 1960, Professor Niels Bohr was in Madras as the personal guest of the Prime Minister of India. He was accompanied by a Deputy Secretary of the Ministry of Scientific Research who travelled with him as his personal aide. I had written to him earlier and he graciously agreed to visit my house and meet my students. Though he stayed at the Government House, he accepted our invitation for dinner at my residence. It was very flattering when he and his wife stayed until midnight after an open air dinner on the lawns of Ekamra Nivas under the luscious foliage of a mango tree near the portico in spite of the repeated reminders of the aide to get back to the Government House. Mrs. Bohr, a gracious woman of great elegance and charm, kept a watchful eye to prevent her husband from putting a burning pipe into his coat pocket! We could not believe that such a great physicist, engrossed in his own thoughts, who along with Einstein set in motion the atomic age, could evince interest in a group of stripling physicists in a far off country. He did so in generous measure at a press interview at the airport which was reported in The Hindu in good detail." Here is the actual report from The Hindu Newspaper. Dr. Bohr said that the Atomic Energy Establishment was a mighty endeavour where research is being conducted in the best way under the leadership of Dr. H. J. Bhabha, a great scientist and at the same time a very good administrator. Asked about the place mathematics should occupy in the pursuit of theoretical physics, the professor said that in Bombay and Madras energetic efforts were being made for the promotion of knowledge of physics which demanded new mathematical methods of education of young people to be able to fruitfully contribute to such work. Wonderful work was being done in the field of theoretical physics by Professor Alladi Ramakrishnan of the Madras University. Alladi Ramakrishnan wrote a letter (see attachment) to Professor Bohr on January 17, 1960, thanking him for his visit to Ekamra Nivas, and his kind words to the press. Professor Bohr responded by letter (see attachment) of February 13 in which he said that he and his wife enjoyed their visit to Ekamra Nivas immensely, and that he was much impressed with Ramakrishnan's efforts to train students. In that letter, Professor Bohr also invited Alladi Ramakrishnan to his institute in Copenhagen. The endorsement of Ramakrishnan's efforts by Bohr is what ultimately convinced the Prime Minister to give the nod for the creation of MATSCIENCE.
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