Great Indian Scientists

Great Indian Scientists

1.C.V.Raman: (7 November 1888-21 November 1970) C.V.Raman was an Indian physicist born in the former Madras Province in India. He was awarded by Nobel Prize for physics in 1930.
Known For: Raman Effect.

2. Homi J. Bhabha: (30 October 1909-24 January 1966) Bhabha was an Indian nuclear physicist, professor of physics at the tata institute of fundamental research.
Known as father of Indian nuclear programme.
Known For:
•Indian Nuclear programme
• Cascade process of cosmic radiations
•Bhabha scattering.

3.Jagadish Chandra Bose: (30 November 1858-23 November 1937) Jagadish Chandra Bose was an Indian physicist, biologist and archaeologist.
Known For:
•Millimeter waves
•Cresograph
•Contributions to plant biology.

4.Srinivasa Ramanujan: (22 December 1887-26 April 1920)
Ramanujan was an Indian mathematician.

Known For:
•Mock theta function
•Ramanujan prime
•Ramanujan's sum
•Rogers - Ramanujan identities
•Ramanujan's master theorem.

5. Satyendra Nath Bose: (1 January 1894-4 February 1974) Satyendra Nath Bose was an Indian physicist from Bengal specialising in theoretical physics.
Known For:
• Bose - Einstein Condensate
• Bose - Einstein statistics
• Bose - Einstein distribution
• Bose gas
• Boson
• Photon gas

6. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam: (15 October 1931-27 July 2015) Avul Pakir Jainualabdeen Abdul Kalam was an Indian aerospace engineer. He was born in Rameswaram , Tamil Nadu.
Known as "missile man of india".

He was awarded by Bharat Ratna in 1997.
Known For:
•Indian pokhran-2 nuclear test in 1997
•Lunch vehicle technology
•Missile development efforts.

 7. Vikram Sarabhai: (12 August 1919-30 December 1971) Sarabhai was an Indian scientist and innovator.
Known as father of" Indian space programme".

Known For:
• Indian space programme
• Indian Institute of Management Ahmadabad.

8. G. N. Ramachandran: (8 October 1922 - 7 April 2001) Ramachandran was an Indian physicist.
Known For:
• Ramachandran plot.

9. Raja Ramanna: (28 January 1928-24 September 2004)
Raja Ramanna was an Indian physicist.
Known For:
• India's nuclear program
• Operation smiling Buddha
• Operation shakti.

10. M. S. Sawaminathan: (7 August 1925)
Sawaminathan is an Indian geneticist and international administrator, renowned for his leading role in India's Green Revolution 
Known For:
•For High - Yielding varieties of wheat in India.

Reference:- Wikipedia. Org

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