The Department of Physics, Bishop Moore College, Mavelikara, has a glorious history of over four decades with many golden feathers in its cap. It is the first Post Graduate department in the college, having started the B.Sc. course in 1967 and the M.Sc. course in 1983. Rev. K.C. Mathew, the first Head of the Department, is also the founder principal of Bishop Moore College. The Department of Physics became an approved Research Centre of the University of Kerala in 2012. The department is now emerging as a flourishing centre of research in the field of Spectroscopy and nonlinear dynamics, with three major research projects in this field, funded by the CSIR, KSCSTE and DST.The Department has become a DST- FIST sponsored department in 2014 with a sponsorship for five years. The Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India has sanctioned the project for upgrading the standard of postgraduate teaching and research facilities through this project. The KSCSTE has also sanctioned the SARD project to the Department in 2016.