Famous Indian Scientists

1. Jagadish Chandra Bose was born on 30 November 1858, inMyemsingh, Faridpur, a part of the Dhaka District now in Bangladesh He attended the village school till he was 11 He then moved to Kolkata where he enrolled in St Xaviers He was very much interested in Biology However, Father Lafont, a famous Professor of Physics, inspired in Bose a great interest in Physics Having obtained his BA in physical sciences, twenty two year old Bose left for London, .....

Prafulla Chandra Ray

2. Prafulla Chandra was born on 2 August 1861 in RaruliKatipara, a village in the District of Khulna (in present day Bangladesh) His early education started in his village school He often played truant and spent his time resting comfortably on the branch of a tree, hidden under its leaves After attending the village school, he went to Kolkata, where he studied at Hare School and the Metropolitan College The lectures of Alexander Pedler in the Presid .....

Srinivasa Ramanujan

3. Ramanujan was born in Erode, a small village in Tamil Nadu on 22 December 1887 When he was a year old his family moved to the town of Kumbakonam, where his father worked as a clerk in a cloth merchants shop When he was nearly five years old, Ramanujan enrolled in the primary school In 1898 he joined the Town High School in Kumbakonam At the Town High School, Ramanujan did well in all subjects and proved himself an able all round scholar It was he .....

Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman

4. Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was born at Tiruchirapalli in Tamil Nadu on 7 November 1888 His father was a lecturer in mathematics and physics so from the very beginning he was immersed in an academic atmosphere Ramans academic brilliance was established at a very young age He finished his secondary school education at the tender age of thirteen and entered the Mrs AVN College at Vishakapatnam, Andhra Pradesh Two years later he moved to the presti .....

Meghnad Saha

5. Meghnad Saha was born on 6 October 1893 in Sheoratali village near Dhaka in present day Bangladesh His father Jagannath Saha was a grocer in the village After primary education, he was admitted to a middle school that was seven miles away from home He stayed with a doctor near the school and had to work in that house to pay for his boarding and lodging Overcoming all these difficulties, he stood first in the Dhaka middle school test, thus securin .....

Satyendra Nath Bose

6. Satyendra Nath Bose was born on New Years day, 1894 in Goabagan in Kolkata. His father was an accountant in Indian Railways. Satyendra Nath popularly known as Satyen Bose, did his schooling at Hindu School, Kolkata, and then joined Presidency College. He excelled in academics throughout his education ? Intermediate, B.Sc. and M.Sc. with applied mathematics. His teacher at the Presidency College was Jagadish Chandra Bose - whose other stellar pupi .....

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar

7. Bhatnagar was born on 21 February 1894 at Bhera, in the district of Shapur in Punjab (now in Pakistan) When he was barely eight months old, his father passed away He spent his next thirteen years under the care of his maternal grandfather in Bulandshahar in Uttar Pradesh Under the influence of his grandfather, young Bhatnagar not only developed a taste for engineering and science but also became interested at a very early age in geometry and alge .....

Homi Jehangir Bhabha

8. Homi Bhabha was born on 30 October 1909 in Mumbai Son of a barrister, he grew up in a privileged environment In Mumbai he attended the Cathedral & John Connon School and then Elphinstone College, followed by the Royal Institute of Science After passing the Senior Cambridge Examination at the age of sixteen, he joined the Gonvile and Caius College in Cambridge with an intention to pursue mechanical engineering His mathematics tutor was Paul Dirac, .....

Subramaniam Chandrasekhar

9. Subramaniam Chandrasekhar, a nephew of Sir CV Raman, was born on 19 October 1910 in Lahore, (now in Pakistan) His father was an officer in the Department of Audits and Accounts of the Indian Government Services Chandrasekhar received his elementary education from his parents and private tutors when he was in Lahore In 1918 Chandra moved to Chennai where he attended the Hindu High School finishing his secondary school education with honours He the .....

Vikram Sarabhai

10. Vikram Sarabhai was born on 12 August 1919 at Ahmedabad He had his early education in a private school,Retreat run by his parents on Montessori lines This atmosphere injected into the young boy the seeds of scientific curiosity, ingenuity and creativity With a natural inclination towards physics and mathematics, Vikram Sarabhai did not get into his family business After school and college in Gujarat, he went to England and obtained his tripos at .....

C R Rao

11. Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao was born to CD Naidu and A Laxmikantamma on 10 September 1920 in Huvvina Hadagalli in present day Karnataka He was the eighth in a family of 10 children After his fathers retirement, the family settled down in Vishakapatnam in Andhra Pradesh From his earliest years, Rao had an interest in mathematics After completing high school he joined the Mrs AVN College at Vishakapatnam for the Intermediate course He received his .....

K Chandrasekharan

12. Komaravolu Chandrasekharan was born on 21 November 1920 in Machilipatnam in modernday Andhra Pradesh He attended District Board School in Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh, and then High School at Bapatla, also in Guntur He then obtained his MA in Mathematics from the Presidency College, Chennai and was a Research Scholar in the Department of Mathematics of the University of Madras during 19401943 During 194346 he was a parttime Lecturer at Preside .....

Har Gobind Khorana

13. Har Gobind Khorana was born in Raipur, Punjab, (now in Pakistan) on 9 January 1922 His father was a patwari, a village agricultural taxation clerk in the BritishIndian system of government Har Gobind did his schooling from the DAV High School in Multan He received his BSc and MSc degrees from the Punjab University in Lahore Khorana lived in India until 1945, when the award of a Government of India Fellowship made it possible for him to go to Engl .....

G N Ramachandran

14. G N Ramachandran was born on 8 October 1922 in Ernakulam, Kerala His father G Narayana Iyer was the principal of Maharajas college in Ernakulam Ramachandran did his intermediate from Maharajas college and his BSc (Hons) in Physics from St Josephs College, Tiruchi In 1942 he joined the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore as a student in the Electrical Engineering department However, under the influence of CV Raman, he shifted to Physics .....

Harish Chandra

15. Harish Chandra was born on 11 October 1923 in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh He attended school in Kanpur and then the University of Allahabad, where he studied theoretical physics After obtaining his masters degree in 1943 he joined the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore to work further with Homi Bhabha on theoretical physics Dr Bhabha arranged for Harish Chandra to go to Cambridge to work for his PhD under the legendary Paul Dirac In 1947 Dirac visi .....

M K Vainu Bappu

16. Manali Kallat Vainu Bappu was born on August 10, 1927 to a senior astronomer in the Nizamiah Observatory, Hyderabad A brilliant student throughout, Vainu Bappu not only excelled in studies but took active part in debates, sports and other extra curricular activities However, astronomy to which he was exposed from an early age, became his passion Being a keen amateur astronomer, even as an undergraduate, he had published papers on variable star ob .....

Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan

17. Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam district of Tamil Nadu in 7 August 1925 in a welltodo family He earned his Bachelors degree in Zoology in Maharajas College in Trivandrum, Kerala and later went on to again earn a Bachelors degree in Agricultural Sciences from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University He described that his motivation for choosing his career path in agricultural sciences was the Bengal famine of 1943 He then took up .....

A P J Abdul Kalam

18. APJ Abdul Kalam was born in a poor Tamil Muslim family in the Rameshwaram district of Tamil Nadu on 15 October 1931 Right from his childhood, he was an average student, but teachers described him as a hardworking and a bright student with exceptional love for mathematics and science He graduated in physics from Saint Josephs College, Tiruchirappalli in 1954 and later graduated from Madras Institute of Technology in Aerospace Engineering in 1960 I .....

Aryabhata

19. ?ryabha?a was an Indian mathematician and astronomer, and the author of the MahaSiddhanta The numeral II is given to him to distinguish him from the earlier and more influential ?ryabha?aAryabhata IIs most eminent work was Mahasiddhanta The treatise consists of eighteen chapters and was written in the form of verse in Sanskrit The initial twelve chapters deals with topics related to mathematical astronomy and covers the topics that Indian mathema .....

Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri

20. Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri (14 September 1923 ? 18 June 2005) was a leading Indian physicist, renowned for his research in general relativity and cosmology. His most significant contribution is the eponymous Raychaudhuri's equation, which demonstrates that singularities arise inevitably in general relativity and is a key ingredient in the proofs of the Penrose-Hawking singularity theorems. Raychaudhuri was also revered as a teacher during his tenure .....

Abhas Mitra

21. Abhas Mitra (born June 3, 1955) is an Indian astrophysicist best known for his distinct views on several frontline astrophysics concepts, particularly black holes and Big Bang Cosmology Mitra have regularly questioned the mainstream cosmological concepts of Big Bang and Black Hole, He claims to have offered exact proofs that (i) The socalled Black Holes cannot be true black black holes even within the context of classical General relativity and ( .....

Abhay Ashtekar

22. Abhay Vasant Ashtekar (born July 5, 1949) is an Indian theoretical physicist He is the Eberly Professor of Physics and the Director of the Institute for Gravitational Physics and Geometry at Pennsylvania State University As the creator of Ashtekar variables, he is one of the founders of loop quantum gravity and its subfield loop quantum cosmology He has also written a number of descriptions of loop quantum gravity that are accessible to nonphysic .....

Anil Bhardwaj

23. Anil Bhardwaj (born June 1, 1967) is the Director of the Space Physics Laboratory, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, ISRO, Trivandrum, India He is the recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in 2007, and was awarded NRC Senior Research Associteship by US National Academy of Science in 2003 He worked at Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, during January 2004 to October 2005 He was awarded fellowship grant by United Nations Office of O .....

Anil Kakodkar

24. Anil Kakodkar is an Indian nuclear scientist and mechanical engineer He was the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India and the Secretary to the Government of India, he was the Director of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay from 19962000 He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, Indias second highest civilian honour, on January 26, 2009 Apart from playing a major role in Indias nuclear tests asserting sovereignty, Kakodkar champions I .....

Animesh Chakravorty

25. Animesh Chakraborty (born June 30, 1935) is a Bengali Indian academic and a professor of chemistry In 1975, he was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in chemistry by the Council of Scientific and Industrial ResearchAfter his graduation from the Scottish Church College, he did his postgraduation from the University of CalcuttaHe had subsequently earned a doctorate in chemistry from the University of CalcuttaHe had .....

Anna Mani

26. Anna Mani (23 August 1918 ? 16 August 2001) was an Indian physicist and meteorologist.She was the Deputy Director General of the Indian Meteorological Department. She made significant contributions in the field of meteorological instrumentation. She conducted research and published numerous papers on solar radiation, ozone and wind energy measurements.Anna Mani was born in Peerumedu, Travancore. Her father was a civil engineer. She was the sevent .....

Arun Majumdar

27. Arun Majumdar is a materials scientist, engineer, and Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay graduate who was President Barack Obamas nominee for the Under Secretary of Energy between November 30, 2011 and May 15, 2012He formerly ran the Environmental Energy Technologies Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he was also deputy director of LBNL as well as professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California, B .....

Arun Netravali

28. Arun N Netravali (born 26 May 1946 in Mumbai, India) is an IndianAmerican computer engineer who has contribution in digital technology including HDTV He conducted seminal research in digital compression, signal processing and other fields Netravali was the last President of Bell Laboratories and Chief Scientist for Lucent Technologies before they went bankrupt He was born in Indore He received his undergraduate degree from the IIT Bombay, India, .....

Arvind Bhatnagar

29. Arvind Bhatnagar made significant contributions to Solar Astronomy, and founded several planetaria across India He was the founderdirector of the Udaipur Solar Observatory, and the founder director of Nehru Planetarium of Bombay Prof Arvind Bhatnagar was known internationally for his significant contributions to Solar Astronomy He was the founderdirector of the Udaipur Solar Observatory He also took immense interest in popularization of astronomy .....

Ashok Gadgil

30. Ashok Gadgil (born 1950 in India) Is Director of the Energy and Environmental Technologies Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley He specializes in heat transfer, fluid dynamics, and design for development He also has substantial experience in technical, economic, and policy research on energy efficiency and its implementation particularly i .....

Ashoke Sen

31. Ashoke Sen is an Indian theoretical physicist and distinguished professor at the HarishChandra Research Institute, Allahabad He also is the Morningstar Visiting professor at MIT His main area of work is String Theory He was among the first recipients of the Fundamental Physics Prize for opening the path to the realisation that all string theories are different limits of the same underlying theory This richly endowed prize has been set up by the R .....

Birbal Sahni

32. Birbal Sahni (14 November 1891 ? 10 April 1949) was an Indian paleobotanist who studied the fossils of the Indian subcontinent, was also a geologist who took an interest in archaeology. He founded the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany in Lucknow, India. His greatest contributions lie in the study of botany of the plants of India as well as paleobotany. Apart from writing numerous influential papers on these topics he also served as the Pres .....

Brahmagupta

33. Brahmaguptawas an Indian mathematician and astronomer who wrote two important works on Mathematics and Astronomy: the Br?hmasphu?asiddh?nta (Extensive Treatise of Brahma) (628), a theoretical treatise, and the Kha??akh?dyaka, a more practical text There are reasons to believe that Brahmagupta originated from Bhinmal Brahmagupta was the first to give rules to compute with zero The texts composed by Brahmagupta were composed in elliptic verse, as w .....

D Bap Reddy

34. Dwaram Bap Reddy is a scientist and administrator who served at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Bap Reddy was among the earliest Indian Reddys to come to United States and arrived in 1946 He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, United States in 1950 He served from 1978 to 1982 as the Deputy Regional Representative (Director of FAO with Diplomatic status level) of Asia and Pacific for the Food a .....

Dronamraju Krishna Rao

35. Dronamraju Krishna Rao (born January 14, 1937) is an Indianborn geneticist and president of the Foundation for Genetic Research in Houston, Texas He was born in Pithapuram, in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India One focus of his work has been the research of J B S HaldaneDronamraju went to MR College in Vizianagaram, Andhra University to study botany and earned a bachelors degree in 1955 He received a masters degree from Agra University in 1957; h .....

Eluvathingal Devassy Jemmis

36. Eluvathingal Devassy Jemmis (born October 31, 1951) is a Professor of theoretical chemistry at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India He was also the Director of Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram (IISERTVM) His primary area of research is applied theoretical chemistry with emphasis on structure, bonding and reactivity, across the periodic table of the elements Apart from many of his contributions to .....

G Madhavan Nair

37. G Madhavan Nair (born October 31, 1943) is the former Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation and Secretary to the Department of Space, Government of India since September 2003 He is also the Chairman, Space Commission and acts as the Chairman of Governing Body of the Antrix Corporation, Bangalore Madhavan Nair was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, Indias second highest civilian honour, on January 26, 2009He also served as the Chairman, Board o .....

Gautam Radhakrishna Desiraju

38. Gautam Radhakrishna Desiraju (born August 21, 1952) is an Indian chemist who works in the Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore He works in the area of structural chemistry and crystal engineering Desiraju has played a major role in the development of crystal engineering for nearly three decades He, among others, has been responsible in recent times for the acceptance of the theme of weak hydrogen .....

Ennackal Chandy George Sudarshan

39. Ennackal Chandy George Sudarshan (also known as E C G Sudarshan; born 16 September 1931) is an Indian theoretical physicist and a professor at the University of Texas Sudarshan has been credited with numerous contributions to the field of theoretical Physics including Optical coherence, SudarshanGlauber representation, VA theory, Tachyons, Quantum Zeno effect, Open quantum system, Spinstatistics theorem, noninvariance groups, positive maps of den .....

Ravi Gomatam

40. Ravi Veeraraghavan Gomatam (born 1950, in Chennai, India) is the Director of Bhaktivedanta Institute (Berkeley and Mumbai) and the newly formed Institute of Semantic Information Sciences and Technology (Berkeley and Mumbai) He is also Adjunct Professor at Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), Pilani, Rajasthan, India Gomatam is one of the pioneers in the field of consciousness studies, which is an emerging interdisciplinary scientific f .....

H R Krishnamurthy

41. Hulikal Ramaiengar Krishnamurthy (born 1951) is an Indian theoretical physicist He specializes in theoretical condensed matter physics, especially quantum manybody theory and statistical physics He is the chairman of the Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science He is one of the research scholars who worked under Prof Kenneth G Wilson His main work was titled Renormalization Group Approach to the Anderson Model of Dilute Magnetic AlloysH .....

Jayant Vishnu Narlikar

42. Jayant Vishnu Narlikar (born July 19, 1938) is an Indian astrophysicist. Narlikar is a proponent of steady state cosmology. He developed with Sir Fred Hoyle the conformal gravity theory, commonly known as Hoyle?Narlikar theory. It synthesizes Albert Einsteins Theory of Relativity and Mach's Principle. It proposes that the inertial mass of a particle is a function of the masses of all other particles, multiplied by a coupling constant, which is a .....

K R Ramanathan

43. Kalpathi Ramakrishna Ramanathan (28 February 1893 ? 31 December 1984) was an Indian physicist and meteorologist. He was the first Director of Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad. Ramanathan was awarded Padma Bhushan in 1965 and Padma Vibhushan in 1976.Born in Kalpathi, Palakkad, to a Sanskrit scholar, Ramanathan received a B.A. degree from the Government Victoria College, Palakkad and an M.A. degree in physics from the Presidency College, Mad .....

K Radhakrishnan

44. K Radhakrishnan is an Indian scientist and the present chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) He is also the chairman of the board of management, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology He has also served as the director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Thiruvananthapuram He is a life fellow of the Indian Geophysical Union and is also an accomplished vocalist (Carnatic music) and Kathakali artist Radhakrishnan took .....

Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan

45. "Padma Bhushan Sir Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan, FRS, (4 December 1898 ? 14 June 1961) was an Indian physicist. He was a co-discoverer of Raman scattering, for which his mentor C. V. Raman was awarded the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics.Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan, Iyengar generally referred to as K. S. Krishnan or KSK, was born on December 4, 1898 in Watrap, Tamil Nadu. His father was a farmer-scholar deeply versed in Tamil and Sanskrit lit .....

Kedareswar Banerjee

46. Kedareswar Banerjee (September 15, 1900 ? April 30, 1975) was an X-ray crystallographer and director of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata. Early in his career he determined the structures of naphthalene and anthracene. In 1931, he worked with Sir William Henry Bragg and developed one of the first direct methods of crystal structure determination. He was Professor of Physics at the Indian Association for the Cultivatio .....

Kotcherlakota Rangadhama Rao

47. Prof. Kotcherlakota Rangadhama Rao (9 September 1898 ? 20 June 1972) was an Indian physicist in the field of Spectroscopy. Rangadhama Rao is best known for his work on spectroscopy, his role in the development of Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance (NQR), and his long association with the physics laboratories of Andhra University. In his later years, he became known for his position as the Principal of all the colleges of Andhra University before their .....

M S Swaminathan

48. Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan (born 7 August 1925) is an Indian geneticist and international administrator, renowned for his leading role in Indias Green Revolution, a program under which highyield varieties of wheat and rice seedlings were planted in the fields of poor farmers Swaminathan is known as Indian Father of Green Revolution for his leadership and success in introducing and further developing highyielding varieties of wheat in India H .....

Man Mohan Sharma

49. Man Mohan Sharma (born May 1, 1937 in Jodhpur, Rajasthan) is an Indian chemical engineer He was educated at Jodhpur, Mumbai and Cambridge At the age of 27 years, he was appointed Professor of Chemical Engineering in the Institute of Chemical Technology (UDCT), Mumbai He later went on to become the Director of Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT/ UDCT/ UICT), the first chemical engineering professor to do so from ICTIn 1990, he became the first .....

Nagendra Kumar Singh

50. Nagendra Kumar Singh is an Indian agricultural scientist He is a National Professor (Dr BPPal Chair) under ICAR at National Research Centre for Plant Biotechnology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi He was born in a small village called Rajapur in the Mau District of Uttar Pradesh He is known for his research in the area of plant genomics and biotechnology, particularly for his contribution in the decoding of rice, tomato and pige .....

Narendra Karmarkar

51. Narendra Krishna Karmarkar (born 1957) is an Indian mathematician, who developed Karmarkars algorithm He is listed as an ISI highly cited researcherNarendra Karmarkar was born in Gwalior After securing an All India Rank 1 in the Joint Entrance Examination conducted by the prestigious IITs (IITJEE), he took admission in the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Karmarkar received his BTech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay in 1978, MS from .....

Padmanabhan Balaram

52. Padmanabhan Balaram is an Indian biochemist and the director of the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, IndiaBalaram received his Bachelors degree in Chemistry from Fergusson College, University of Pune followed by a Masters degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and his PhD degree from Carnegie Mellon University with Aksel A BothnerBy After a postdoctoral stint at Harvard University with Nobel laureate Robert Burns Woodward .....

Pamposh Bhat

53. Pamposh Bhat (born September 19, Bhopal, India) is a New Delhi based environmentalist and award winning writer Bhat has been awarded the prestigious Rajbhasha Award for Poetry in 1995 for her work Kshitij Ki Khoj Mein (In search of the Horizon) Active in public life, she serves as the chairperson of the board of trustees for Jwala, a civil society group that seeks to promote renewable energy and energy efficiency in India She is a former member o .....

Pisharoth Rama Pisharoty

54. Pisharoth Rama Pisharoty was an Indian physicist and meteorologist, and is considered to be the father of remote sensing in IndiaP R Pisharoty was born on February 10, 1909 in the town of Kollengode in the Indian state of KeralaHis parents were Sivaramakrishnan alias Gopala Vadhyar and Lakshmi Pisharassiar He had two brothers: Balakrishnan and Rajagopal, and three half brothers: Vaidyanathan, Rose Vadhyar and Gopalakrishnan He completed his early .....

Pranav Mistry

55. Pranav Mistry (born 1981) is an Indian computer scientist and Inventor At present, he is the head of Think Tank Team and Vice President of Research at Samsung He is best known for his work on SixthSense and Samsung Galaxy Gear His research interests include Wearable Computing, Augmented reality, Ubiquitous computing, Gestural interaction, AI, Machine vision, Collective intelligence and Robotics World Economic Forum honored Mistry as one of the Yo .....

Prem Chand Pandey

56. Prem Chand Pandey is an Indian scientist and academic in the fields of Satellite Oceanography, Remote Sensing, Atmospheric Science, Antarctic and Climate ChangePandey obtained his Masters and Bachelors degrees in Electronics and science respectively from Allahabad University, Allahabad He completed his DPhil degree from the same university(on microwaves) in 1972 In 1966, Pandey became a lecturer in DAV Degree college, Azamgarh From 1968 to 1972 h .....

Raghunath Anant Mashelkar

57. Raghunath Anant Mashelkar is also known as Ramesh MashelkarHe is the former Director General of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), a chain of 38 publicly funded industrial research and development institutions in IndiaMashelkar studied at the University of Bombays Department of Chemical Technology (now the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai) where he obtained a Bachelors degree in Chemical engineering in 1966, later on .....

Raj Reddy

58. Dabbala Rajagopal Raj Reddy (born June 13, 1937) is a IndianAmerican computer scientist and winner of the Turing Award, is one of the early pioneers of artificial intelligence and has served on the faculty of Stanford and Carnegie Mellon for over 40 years He was the founding Director of the Robotics Institute at CMU He was instrumental in helping to create Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies in India, to cater to the educational nee .....

Roddam Narasimha

59. Roddam Narasimha (born 20 July 1933) is an Indian aerospace scientist and fluid dynamicist He was a Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Director of National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) and the Chairman of Engineering Mechanics Unit at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore, India He is now an Honorary Professor at JNCASR and concurrently holds the Pratt & Whitney Cha .....

Somya Ranjan Mahapatra

60. Somya Ranjan Mahapatra is an Indian Computer Scientist At present, he is Software Developer of Microsoft He is best known for his work on Development New Software His research interests include Wearable Computing, Augmented reality, Ubiquitous computing, Gestural interaction, AI, Machine vision, Collective intelligence and RoboticsWorld Economic Forum honored Somya as one of the Young Global Leader 2013He is from Cuttack, which is situated in Od .....

Suri Bhagavantam

61. Suri Bhagavantam About this (October 14, 1909 February 6, 1989), was an Indian scientist and administrator He was Vice chancellor of Osmania University and Director of Indian Institute of Science and Defence Research and Development OrganizationBhagavantam was born in Agiripalli village in Andhra Pradesh After primary education in Gudivada, he obtained Bachelor in Science degree in Physics from Nizam College, Hyderabad under Madras University Im .....

S Ramaseshan

62. Sivaraj Ramseshan (October 10, 1923 ? December 29, 2003) was an Indian scientist known for his work in the field of crystallography. Ramaseshan served as Director of the Indian Institute of Science and was awarded the Padma Bhushan. Ramaseshan is the nephew of Indian scientist and Nobel laureate Sir C. V. Raman and cousin of Subramanyan Chandrasekhar.Ramaseshan was born on October 10, 1923 in Madras to Sitalakshmi sister of Indian scientist Sir C .....

Samir K Brahmachari

63. Samir Kumar Brahmachari (born 1 January 1952) is an Indian biophysicist and Former Director General of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) and Former Secretary, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), Government of India He is the Founder Director of Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), New Delhi and the Chief Mentor of Open Source for Drug Discovery (OSDD) Project He is the recipient of JC Bos .....

Shivram Bhoje

64. Shivram Baburao Bhoje (born 9 April 1942) is a distinguished Indian nuclear scientist who worked in the field of fastbreeder nuclear reactor technology for forty years in the design, construction, operation, and research and development Indian government has honored him with Padma Shri in 2003, the fourth highest civilian award in India, for his distinguished service to science and engineering fieldsBhoje was born on 9 April 1942 in Kasaba Sangao .....

Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar

65. Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar (22 July 1930 2 November 2012 was an Indian American mathematician known for his contributions to algebraic geometry He, at the time of his death, held the Marshall distinguished professor of mathematics chair at Purdue University, and was also a professor of computer science and industrial engineering He is known for Abhyankars conjecture of finite group theory His latest research was in the area of computational and .....

Visvesvaraya

66. Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya KCIE (popularly known as Sir MV; 15 September 1860 ? 14 April 1962) was a notable Indian engineer, scholar, statesman and the Diwan of Mysore during 1912 to 1918. He was a recipient of the Indian Republic's highest honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1955. He was knighted as a Knight Commander of the Indian Empire (KCIE) by King George V for his contributions to the public good. Every year, 15 September is celebrated as Eng .....

Siva S Banda

67. Siva Subrahmanyam Banda (born 1951) is an IndianAmerican aerospace engineer He is Director of the Control Science Center of Excellence and senior scientist for Control Theory for the Air Vehicles Directorate at the United States Air Force Research Laboratory at WrightPatterson Air Force Base He has taught at Wright State University, the University of Dayton, and the Air Force Institute of TechnologyDr Banda joined the US Air Force Flight Dynamics .....

Subhash Mukhopadhyay

68. Subhash Mukhopadhyay (16 January 1931 ? 19 June 1981) was a physician from Kolkata, India, who created the world's second and India's first child using in-vitro fertilisation, Durga who was born 67 days after the first IVF baby in United Kingdom. Unfortunately, he was harassed by the state government, and not allowed to share his achievements with the international scientific community. Dejected, he committed suicide on 19 June 1981. His life and .....

Sujoy K Guha

69. Sujoy Kumar Guha is an Indian biomedical engineer He was born in Patna, India, in 1939 He did his undergraduate degree (BTech) in electrical engineering from IIT Kharagpur, followed by a Masters Degree in electrical engineering at IIT, and another Masters degree from the University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign He later received his PhD in Medical Physiology from St Louis University He then founded the Centre for Biomedical Engineering , IIT Delhi .....

Sunil Mukhi

70. Sunil Mukhi is an Indian theoretical physicist working in the areas of string theory, quantum field theory and particle physicsHe earned a PhD in Theoretical Physics in 1981 from the State University of New York at Stony Brook After spending two years at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics at Trieste, Italy, he returned to India where he has worked at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai, India since 1984 In November, .....

Sushruta Samhita

71. The Sushruta Samhita is a Sanskrit redaction text on surgery The original work is attributed to Sushruta, likely a historical physician from the 6th century BC Varanasi, although the text as preserved dates to the 3rd or 4th century AD It is one of three foundational texts of Ayurveda (Indian traditional medicine), alongside the Charaka Samhita and the medical portions of the Bower Manuscript The original text however is lost and modifications an .....

Swapan Chattopadhyay

72. Swapan Chattopadhyay (born December 26, 1951) is a particle accelerator physicist noted for his pioneering contributions of innovative concepts, techniques and developments in high energy particle colliders, coherent and incoherent light sources, ultrafast sciences in the femto and atto second regimes, superconducting linear accelerators and various applications of interaction of particle and light beams He has directly contributed to the develop .....

Thanu Padmanabhan

73. Thanu Padmanabhan (born 10 March 1957) is an Indian theoretical physicist and Cosmologist whose research spans a wide variety of topics in Gravitation, Structure formation in the universe and Quantum Gravity He has published more than 230 papers and reviews in international journals and ten books in these areas Many of his contributions, especially those related to the analysis and modelling of dark energy in the universe and the interpretation o .....

Tej P Singh

74. Tej P Singh is an Indian biophysicist and a scientific leader who has made original and novel contributions in the fields of Rational Structure based drug design, Protein Structure biology and Xray crystallography He has played an active role in the development of research programmes on drug design in the fields of Tuberculosis, Inflammation, Cancer, Epilepsy, Gastropathy and Arthritis in India He has published more than 350 research papers in le .....

Udupi Ramachandra Rao

75. Udupi Ramachandra Rao, popularly known as U R Rao is a space scientist and former chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation Presently he is the Chairman of the Governing Council of the Physical Research Laboratory at Ahmedabad Rao was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India in 1976 He was inducted into the Satellite Hall of Fame, Washington on March 19, 2013 at a ceremony organised by the Society of Satellite Professionals .....

Vijay P Bhatkar

76. Vijay Bhatkar is an Indian scientist Indias computer magazine Dataquest has placed him among the star pioneers who shaped Indias IT industryBhatkar is best known as the architect of Indias national initiative in supercomputing where he led the development of Param supercomputers He developed the first Indian supercomputer, the Param 8000, in 1991 and then later the Param 10000 in 1998 Based on the Param series of supercomputers, he built the Nati .....

V Balakrishnan

77. V Balakrishnan (born 1943 as Venkataraman Balakrishnan) is an Indian theoretical physicist who has worked in a number of fields of areas, including particle physics, manybody theory, the mechanical behavior of solids, dynamical systems, stochastic processes, and quantum dynamics He is an accomplished researcher who has made important contributions to the theory of anelasticity, continuoustime random walks, and recurrences in dynamical systems He .....

Yellapragada Subbarow

78. Yellapragada Subbarow (12 January 1895 ? 9 August 1948) was an Indian biochemist who discovered the function of adenosine triphosphate as an energy source in the cell, and developed methotrexate for the treatment of cancer Most of his career was spent in the United States Despite his isolation of ATP, Subbarow was denied tenure at Harvard and remained without a green card throughout his life, though he would lead some of Americas most important m .....