{"id":30478,"date":"2016-09-24T20:49:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T03:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/weekend-being-jacob-koshy-writes-on-manu-prakash-an-engineer-from-indian-institute-of-technology-kanpur"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:13:35","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:13:35","slug":"weekend-being-jacob-koshy-writes-on-manu-prakash-an-engineer-from-indian-institute-of-technology-kanpur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/weekend-being-jacob-koshy-writes-on-manu-prakash-an-engineer-from-indian-institute-of-technology-kanpur","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Being: Jacob Koshy writes on Manu Prakash, an engineer from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/weekend-being-jacob-koshy-writes-on-manu-prakash-an-engineer-from-indian-institute-of-technology-kanpur.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Frugality, crafting inexpensive knock-offs and making do with little may be the ethos of India\u2019s pharmaceutical industry, its manufacturing sector and the spirit with which our scientists conduct their research but an Indian-origin bio-engineer at Stanford University has just won one of America\u2019s grandest prizes \u2014 the MacArthur \u2018Genius\u2019 grant \u2014 worth Rs.4 crore for designing a $1 microscope.<\/p>\n<p><b>Towards do-it-yourself science<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Manu Prakash from Rampur, Uttar Pradesh and an engineer from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, has made a name for fashioning ingenious devices that make the essence of science \u2014 observation and experiments \u2014 accessible to those who can\u2019t afford expensive instruments.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/weekend-being-jacob-koshy-writes-on-manu-prakash-an-engineer-from-indian-institute-of-technology-kanpur\/article9144908.ece\">http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/weekend-being-jacob...144908.ece<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frugality, crafting inexpensive knock-offs and making do with little may be the ethos of India\u2019s pharmaceutical industry, its manufacturing sector and the spirit with which our scientists conduct their research but an Indian-origin bio-engineer at Stanford University has just won one of America\u2019s grandest prizes \u2014 the MacArthur \u2018Genius\u2019 grant \u2014 worth Rs.4 crore for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30478"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66159,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30478\/revisions\/66159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}