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The Indian tradition places much emphasis on the tutelage traditions. My undergradaute professional mentor was Dr. J Viplava Kumar, who traces back his studentship all the way to Grand-old sire of Indian Metallurgy, Dr. T. R. Anantharaman (wiki), who was in turn a close collaborator of Prof. Sir Hume Rothery, who formulated the Hume Rothery Rules.
When I began my graduate career, I was pleasantly surprized to know that Dr. Sundeep Mukherjee was a student of Bill Johnson of CalTech. Bill was the Doctoral Student of Pol Duwez (wiki), the inventor of metallic glasses. Interestngly, Pol and TR were also close collaborators too! TR began his work in Metallic Glases when he visited Keck Lab and Pol too visited that day's India, and spent several days at BHU, which was rather remotely accessible.