Top Indian scientist
1861 - 1944
Prafulla Chandra Ray
Prafulla Chandra Ray was a scientist, chemist, educationist, industrialist, philanthropist, and more. He was known as one of the most experienced academician and chemists. He was the person who formed the first pharmaceutical company of India - The Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals.
Awards
5
Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire,
Knight Bachelor,
Fellow of the Chemical Society
Fellow of the National Institute of Sciences of India,
Fellow of the Indian Association
Prafulla Chandra Ray
The stable compound Mercurous nitrite in 1896
Established India's first pharmaceutical company in 1901
Established Bengal Chemical and Pharmaceutical Works Ltd
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1896 – 1987
Salim Ali
Salim Moizuddin Abdul Ali was a renowned naturalist and ornithologist. He was titled as the ‘Birdman of India’.
He was the first person to do survey and research on birds. Several books on birds are also written by Salim Ali. The popular book Handbook of the ‘Birds of India and Pakistan’ is written by him.
Awards
3
Padma Vibhushan
Padma Bhushan
Asiatic Society of Bengal
Salim Ali
Systematic Bird Survey in India & Overseas.
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1887 – 1920
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Srinivasa Ramanujan has remained a legendary mathematician ever since the British rule of India. He never took any proper training in Math subject but, his contributions have given new meaning to the subject.
Awards
1
Fellow of the Royal Society
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Discoveries on Pi, Number Theory, Continued Fractions, Analysis.
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1909 – 1966
Homi Jehangir Bhabha
Homi Jehangir Bhabha was a popular nuclear physicist, and founder of physics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (also referred to as TIFR).
Born to a wealthy Parso family, Bhabha selflessly continued supporting the nation with his endless theories and innovations in the subject of Physics.
Awards
3
Padma Bhushan
Adams Prize
Fellow of the Royal Society
Homi Jehangir Bhabha
Founder of BARC (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre) & Indian Nuclear Program Head.
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1858 – 1937
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Jagadish Bose was a physicist, botanist, biologist, and polymath. He was also a known archaeologist and early writer of science fiction during British India.
Various science institutes and organizations also titled him as ‘one of the fathers of radio science.’ He was also honored with the title of the father of Bengali Science Fiction. Some of his major inventions include the crescograph.
Awards
1
Fellow of the Royal Society
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Invented Crescograph (that measures the growth in plants)
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1861 - 1944
C.V. Raman
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was a legendary physicist who made phenomenal works in the subject light scattering. Despite receiving so many awards and accolades, he remained grounded and continued to contribute to the nation with his excellent knowledge and skills.
Awards
6
Bharat Ratna
Lenin Peace Prize
Matteucci Medal
Hughes Medal
C.V. Raman
Discovered the ‘Raman Effect’ in 1928.
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1894 – 1974
Satyendra Nath Bose
Satyendra Nath Bose was the well renowned Indian physicists. He showed wide range of interests and knowledge in subjects such as; chemistry, biology, mineralogy, arts, literature, music, and mathematics. His contributions made India proud and several committees in sovereign benefited from his skills and knowledge.
Awards
4
Fellow of the Royal Society
Padma Vibhushan
Nobel Prize in Physics
Satyendra Nath Bose
BEC Theory (Bose-Einstein Condensate Theory) in collaboration with Albert Einstein.
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1922 – 2011
Har Govind Khorana
Har Govind Khorana was a popular Indian-American biochemist. His great contributions and research works are still remembered in the field of medicine. Khorana was born during the British India.
Awards
6
Nobel Prize in the subjects of Physiology and Medicine
Willard Gibbs
National Medal
Padma Vibhushan
ALbert Lasker
Canada Gairdner International
Har Govind Khorana
The first scientist to chemically synthesize oligonucleotides.
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1931 – 2015
Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Dr. A.P.J’s full name Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam.
He was one of the most prominent aerospace scientists and also served as the 11th President of India.
Abdul Kalam is also referred to as the ‘Missile Man of India’ for his amazing contributions in the ballistic missile and launch vehicle.
Awards
7
Padma Bhushan
Padma Vibhushan
Bharat Ratna
Veer Savarkar Award
Von Braun Award
SASTRA Ramanujan Prize, ETC
Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Directed the project to develop ‘India’s first Satellite Launch Vehicle (SLV)’.
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1893 – 1956
Dr. Meghnad Saha
Meghnad Saha was an Indian Astrophysicist. He gained great important and recognition for his explanations related to chemical and physical balance in stars. His contributions and knowledge helped various astronomers to understand the spectral classes of various stars along with their temperature.
Awards
1
Griffith Prize
Dr. Meghnad Saha
‘Saha Ionization Equation’
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1930 – 2012
Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar
Shreeram was a known Indian American Mathematician.
In his life, some of the major works by Shreeram include the Abhyankar Conjecture, Abhyankar Lemma, Abhyankar Moh Theorem, and Finite group theory.
Awards
1
Chauvenet Prize
Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar
Great contributions to ‘algebraic geometry’.
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1910 – 1995
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar spent most of his life being an American Astrophysicist.
He belonged to the Indian origin. His theories on the structure and evolution of the stars helped many astronomers. Some of the important thoughts gave rise to stellar evolution and the evolution of the stars and black holes.
Awards
11
Adams Prize, Copley Medal
Royal Medal, Bruce Medal
Rumford Prize
Novel Prize in Physics
Padma Bhushan
Henry Draper Medal & etc
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Originate a theoretical model that explains the structure of white dwarf stars called ‘Chandrasekhar Limit’.
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1937 – Present
Raj Reddy
Raj Reddy is an Indian Indian American computer scientist.
Reddy is one of the major contributors in the subject of Artificial Intelligence. He is also an important faculty at the Stanford and Carnegie Mellon University. He has been working as a faculty for the last 50 years. Some of the important fields that he specializes and trains in are Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction, and Robotics.
Awards
3
Padma Bhushan
Turing Award
Vennevar Brush Award
Raj Reddy
Invented Voice Recognition AI, the first system was ‘Hearsay I’.
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1893 – 1972
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
Prasanta was a popular Indian scientist and statistician. The Government of India celebrates his birthday on 29 June as the National Statistical Day in his memory.
His 125th birthday was also highlighted in the Google Doodle. Prasanta played a vital role in the various Indian campaigns to bring the first digital computers in the country.
Awards
2
Fellow of the Royal Society
Padma Vibhushan
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
Founded ‘The Mahalanobis Distance’
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1891 – 1949
Birbal Sahni
Birbal Sahni was an Indian paleobotanist.
He devoted his time in the education of fossils. Other than the fossils, he took active interest in subjects of geology and archaeology. Sahni contributed greatly in the studies of fossil plants and plant evolution of India. He founded the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, Lucknow.
Awards
1
Fellow of the Royal Society
Birbal Sahni
Famous for Bennettitales, Pentoxylales, Homoxylon Rajmahalense
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