| Indian Scientists | Information/work |
|---|---|
| C V Raman | Indian physicist |
| In 1930, he won nobel prize for his work in light Scattering | |
| He is well know for the Raman effect and Rman Scattering | |
| Homi J Bhabha | Indian nuclear physicist |
| He is also known as Father of Indian Nuclear Programe | |
| Under his directorship Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) and Trombay Atomic Energy Establishment grown to its fullest | |
| Satyendra Nath Bose | Physicist and Mathematician |
| He is well known for the Bose-Einstein statistics | |
| The Boson particle was named after him | |
| Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar | Indian American astrophysicist |
| He won Nobel prize in 1983 with William A Fowler | |
| He is famous for his Chandrasekher Limit | |
| Srinivasa Ramanujan | Indian mathematician |
| He had published many theorems with English mathematician G. H. Hardy | |
| Some of his famous works are Ramanujan conjecture, Ramanujan prime, Ramanujan-Soldner constant, Ramanujan theta function, Ramanujan's sum. | |
| A P J Abdul kalam | Physicist and Aerospace Engineer |
| Commonly known as Missile Man of India. He has contributed much in the development of Missile Technology in India | |
| He was also involved in Space research programme and in PSLV development | |
| In 1997 he was awarded with Bharat Ratna | |
| Jagdish Chandra Bose | Indian physicist, biologist, biophysicist, botanist |
| He is one of the fathers of radio science. | |
| His works are Millimetre waves, Crescograph | |
| Meghnad Saha | Indian Astrophysicist |
| He is famous for his work in Thermal Ionisation and Saha Equation | |
| Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar | He has worked in the field of Chemistry |
| He is also known as Father of Indian Research Laboratories | |
| He was the first director of CSIR (Council of Scientfic and Industrial Research). | |
| After his name CSIR started the award Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology | |
| Vikram Sarabhai | Indian Physicst |
| He is also called as the Father of India's Space program | |
| He was the founder of Physical Research Laboratory, ISRO | |
| Birbal Sahni | Indian paleobotanist |
| His focus of study was Plant Evolution and fossil plants of india. | |
| He is the founder of Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany at Lucknow | |
| Brahmagupta | Indian mathematician |
| He is well famous for Zero and modern Number system | |
| S.S. Abhyankar | Indian American mathematician |
| He is well known for Abhyankar's conjecture of finite group theory. | |
| Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis | Indian mathematician and Statistician |
| He is well known for Mahalanobis distance | |
| Harish Chandra | Indian American mathematician and physicist |
| His famous works are Harish-Chandra's c-function, Harish-Chandra's character formula, Harish-Chandra homomorphism, Harish-Chandra isomorphism, Harish-Chandra module, Harish-Chandra's regularity theorem | |
| Prafulla Chandra Ray | Indian Chemist |
| He is the founder of Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals | |
| G N Ramachandran | Indian physicist |
| He is famous for Ramachandran plot | |
| Venkatraman Ramakrishnan | Indian-American-British structural biologist |
| He won Noble prize in 2009 in Chemistry with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada Yonath | |
| His some of the works are Structure and function of the ribosome, | |
| macromolecular crystallography | |
| Anil Kakodkar | Indian nuclear scientist |
| He was part of Indian Nuclear programs, Pokhran II, Smiling Buddha | |
| He was associated with many institutions BARC, Atomic Energy Commission of India, Department of Atomic Energy | |
| Yellapragada Subbarow | Indian biochemist |
| He has discovered the role of phosphocreatine and adenosine triphosphate in muscular activity. | |
| He is known for synthesis of folic acid and synthesis of methotrexate. | |
| C N R Rao | Indian chemist |
| His worked is mainly in solid-state and structural chemistry | |
| He was awarded the Bharat Ratna in 2013. He is currently the Head of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India. | |
| He has authored around 1500 research papers and 45 books | |
| Jayant Narlikar | Indian astrophysicist |
| He is well known for Hoyle-Narlikar theory | |
| Raja Ramanna | Indian physicist |
| He is well known for his role in India's Nuclear Program-Smiling Buddha, Shakti | |
| Raj Reddy | Indian-American computer scientist |
| He has done tremendous work in Artificial Intelligence. | |
| He won the Turing Award in 1994 | |
| Upendranath Brahmachari | Indian Medical Practitioner |
| He discovered the Urea Stibamine, it was helpful in the treatment of Kala-azar | |
| Narendra Karmakar | Indian mathematician |
| He is well known for Karmakar's Algorithm | |
| Ashoke Sen | Indian theoretical physicist |
| His work area is String Theory | |
| His well known works are S-duality and Sen Conjecture. | |
| He has won the Fundmental Physics prize | |
| Abhay Ashtekar | Indian theoretical physicist |
| Creator of Ashtekar variables | |
| He was the part of team who discovered loop quantum gravity and its subfield loop quantum cosmology. | |
| He and his team calculated the entrophy of a Black Hole | |
| M S Swaminathan | Indian geneticist |
| He is known as Indian Father of Green Revolution. | |
| He has developed the high-yielding varieties of wheat in India. | |
| He is the founder of MS Swaminathan Research Foundation | |
| Animesh Chakravorty | Professor of Chemistry |
| Worked in the field of Coordination complex | |
| Raghunath Anant Mashelkar | Indian chemical engineer |
| He has played key roles in Intellectual Property Rights and formation of R&D | |
| Ashok Gadgil | He has worked in Energy and Environmental Technologies. |
| He is famous for UV Waterworks and Darfur Stoves | |
| Anna Mani | Indian physicist and meteorologist |
| She has contributed in meteorological instrumentation | |
| Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya | Indian Civil Engineer |
| He is famous for construction of the Krishna Raja Sagara dam, chief designer of the flood protection system for the city of Hyderabad. | |
| He won the Bharat Ratna Award in 1955. In his memory, 15 September is celebrated as Engineers Day in India. | |
| M G K Menon | Indian physicist |
| He is famous for the KGF Experiments. | |
| He was also associated with many research institutions and helped them to shape | |
| Aryabhata | Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy |
| He was known as the first to introduce the concepts like lunar eclipse and solar eclipse, rotation of Earth on its axis, reflection of light by moon, sinusoidal functions. | |
| Narinder Singh Kapany | Indian-born American physicist |
| He is also called as the Father of Fiber Optics | |
| He has done excellect work in the area of fiber optics | |
| E C George Sudarshan | Indian theoretical physicist |
| His some of the best works are Optical coherence, Sudarshan-Glauber representation, V-A theory, Tachyons, Quantum Zeno effect | |
| Govindarajan Padmanaban | Indian biochemist and biotechnologist |
| He has done many experiments related to celluar processes and is also interested in Vaccine development | |
| Padmanabhan Balaram | Indian biochemist |
| His focus of work is peptides | |
| Kailash Nath kaul | Indian botanist, agronomist, agricultural scientist. |
| His notable work is Arecaceae Research | |
| K R Ramanathan | Indian physicist and meteorologist |
| He helped in the foundation of Dobson ozone spectrophotometer stations in India | |
| Bhaskara | Indian mathematician and astronomer |
| His work related to equations and algebra was remarkable | |
| Ganapathi Thanikaimoni | Indian palynologist |
| He contributed significantly in the area of palynology | |
| Aditi Pant | Indian oceanographer |
| First Indian women to visit Antartica. She was in Indian expedition to Antarctica in 1983 | |
| Roddam Narasimha | Indian aerospace scientist and fluid dynamicist |
| He contributed significantly in Aerospace technology development in India | |
| K Radhakrishnan | Space Researcher |
| He is known for Chandrayaan and MOM | |
| Anil Bhardwaj | His work area is Space and planetary science. |
| He was part of many experiments- SARA (Sub-keV Atom Reflecting Analyzer) experiment on the Chandrayaan-1 mission, MENCA experiment on the first Indian Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), CHACE-2 experiment on the Chandrayaan-2 | |
| He is member of ISRO and many national institutes | |
| Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan | Indian space scientist |
| He was associated with Indian satellite developments | |
| Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri | Indian physicist |
| His research area is General Relativity and cosmology. | |
| He is famous for the Raychaudhuri equation. | |
| He is also a great teacher and many of his students are scientists. | |
| Rajesh Gopakumar | Indian theoretical physicist |
| His work is specially focused on String theory | |
| He is known for Gopakumar-Vafa duality, Gopakumar-Vafa invariants | |
| Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan | Indian physicist |
| He was co-discoverer of Raman Effect for which C V Raman got Nobel prize | |
| Thanu Padmanabhan | Indian theoretical physicist and cosmologist |
| His focus of work is Dark Energy, Quantum Gravity, Gravitation | |
| Vijay P Bhatkar | Indian computer scientist |
| He was the Architect of PARAM series of Supercomputers | |
| Pisharoth Rama Pisharoty | Indian physicist and meteorologist |
| He is also known as Father of remote sensing in India | |
| Salim Ali | Indian ornithologist |
| He is also called as Birdman of India | |
| He helped in developing bird sanctuaries and protecting them. |
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