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The album includes photos captured during the visit to the Indian Institute of Astrophysics by Prof. S. Chandrasekhar, an Indian-American theoretical physicist and Nobel prize winner in physical science. This particular visit of Prof. S. Chandrasekhar and his wife, Mrs Lalitha Chandrasekhar, was held in 1991 during the directorship of R. Cowsik.

The album contains photos taken during the science EXPO event conducted by IIA in 2005. The 'satellite Man of India' - Udupi Ramachandra Rao, who was an Indian space scientist and former chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation, visited the EXPO, and those photos are included in this album.

The album contains photos of the Uzbekistan Ambassador's visit on 27 October 1995.

The album contains photos of Sir Arnold Wolfendale and his wife Audrey Darby during the visit to IIA Bangalore in 1993 for the event of the 1993 solar eclipse. The album includes photographs of the talk by eminent personalities from the field of astronomy in the library meeting hall and participants and of the observation site.

The album contains photos of the National Science Day celebration in 1999 held in IIA Bangalore. The album includes photographs of the school students and teachers who participated in the program, talks by different astrophysicists of IIA, and prize distribution for the winners.

The album contains photos of the finance committee meeting of IIA in 1997 and the inauguration photos of the CREST campus at Hoskote in 1996. The foundation stone of the CREST campus was laid by Prof V. S. Ramamurthy, a well-known Indian nuclear scientist and R. Cowsik, former director of IIA.

The album contains photos of the IIA vehicles kept for auction sale.

The album contains photographs of beautiful sceneries around IIA.

The album consists of photos related to the visit of Prof. S. Chandrasekhar, who shared the 1983 Nobel Prize for physics with William A. Fowler for theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars. He visited the IIA Bangalore campus on 11 January 1993 with his wife, Lalitha Chandrasekhar. The album includes photos of lectures and meetings, as well as the photos of Prof Chandrasekhar and his wife at IIA.

The album contains photos taken during the visit of Prof. D. Sugimoto of the University of Tokyo in 1997 as a part of the India-Japan collaborative research program. It includes photographs of the presentation by Prof. D. Sugimoto and handing over the board to be installed in the GRAPE system, a parallel computing machine dedicated to galaxy simulations, to director R. Cowsik.