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GREAT INDIAN SCIENTISTS
JAGADISH CHANDRA BOSE
1858 - 1937Jagadish Chandra Bose, proved with his research on plant response to stimuli that these botanical lives have sensory and communication mechanisms.
PRAFULLA CHANDRA RAY
1861 – 1944Prafulla Chandra Ray, the father of Indian chemistry acknowledged for his discovery of mercurous nitrite, was nicknamed ‘master of nitrites’.
M VISVESVARAYA
1861 - 1962Sir M Visvesaraya, the pioneering civil engineer and architect of modernizing India’s irrigation systems is regarded as ‘Father of Indian Engineering’.
C V RAMAN
1888 – 1970C.V. Raman, conferred the Nobel prize for his Raman Effect, had significantly advanced studies on light transmission and its interaction with matter.
BIRBAL SAHNI
1891 - 1949Birbal Sahni was a paleo botanist and geologist whose research on fossil plants provided crucial insights on the ancient flora of Indian sub-continent.
MEGHNATH SAHA
1893 – 1956Meghnath Saha, the astro-physicist is famous for developing Saha ionization equation, which unravelled invaluable insights into stellar spectra.
SHANTI SWARUP BHATNAGAR
1894 – 1955Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar, a research visionary in whose name India’s highest science award is conferred even today was the founder Director of CSIR.
SATYENDRANATH BOSE
1894 – 1974S N Bose, who had worked with Einstein to build Bose-Einstein statistics and condensate is regarded for his contribution on quantum mechanics.
JANAKI AMMAL
1897 – 1984Janaki Ammal was a botanist and cytogeneticist, whose research on hybrid varieties of sugarcane and brinjal increased their production.
K RANGADHAMA RAO
1898 - 1972K Rangadhama Rao, an eminent spectroscopist whose research focussed on Raman Effect, infrared spectroscopy and molecular structures.
HOMI J BHABA
1909 – 1966Homi J Bhaba, the ‘father of Indian nuclear science’ was a visionary nuclear physicist credited for setting up of India’s atomic research infrastructure.
SUBRAHMANYAN CHANDRASEKHAR
1910 - 1995Subrahmanyam Chandrasekhar, the astrophysicist who was conferred the Nobel Prize in 1983 is best known for his discovery of ‘Chandrasekhar Limit’.
VIKRAM SARABHAI
1919 - 1971Vikram Sarabhai, India’s pioneering space scientist was instrumental in establishing ISRO and launching India’s first satellite, Aryabhata in 1975.
HAR GOVIND KHURANA
1922 – 2001Har Gobind Khurana was jointly conferred the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1968 for their discovery of genetic code and its role in protein synthesis.
RAJA RAMANA
1925 - 2004Raja Ramanna, credited for developing and testing India’s first nuclear bomb in 1974, also set up nuclear research institutes in India.
M S SWAMINATHAN
1925 – 2023M S Swaminathan was the father of ‘Green Revolution’, who had introduced high yielding crop varieties to ensure India’s food sufficiency.
APJ ABDUL KALAM
1931 - 2015APJ Abdul Kalam, the ’Missile Man of India’ was an eminent space scientist who had immense contribution in India’s satellite and missile launches.
RAJ REDDY
1937 – PresentRaj Reddy is a computer scientist researching on artificial intelligence and robotics with contributions in speech recognition and machine learning.
VENKATARAMAN RAMAKRISHNAN
1952 – PresentVenkataraman Ramakrishnan was jointly awarded Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2009 for their discoveries on ribosome atomic structures.
TESSY THOMAS
1963 - PresentTessy Thomas, the missile scientist nicknamed ‘Missile Woman of India’, is the first woman to head a missile project, Agi-IV at DRDO.
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