9 Most Famous Scientists of India
We all have noticed that science is an important part of our day to day life. Everything starting from television, mobile phones, applications, automobiles to electricity and more are all related to science. Without these we wouldn’t be able to live. Following are the 9 most famous scientists of India.
CV Raman
ChandrasekharaVenkata Raman was born is 1888 in Tiruchirapalli. He has won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930 for scattering of light. He also worked on acoustics of musical instruments.
Homi J. Bhabha
He was born in 1909 in Bombay and played an important role in quantum theory. He was the first chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India. He started his scientific career in nuclear physics from Great Britain.
Visvesvaraya
He was born in 1860 and was a notable Indian engineer, scholar and statesman. He was the one who invented automatic sluice gates and block irrigation system.
VenkatramanRadhakrishnan
He was born in 1929 in Tondaripet, a suburb of Chennai. He is acclaimed as an Astrophysicist. He is also known for his designs and fabrication of ultralight aircraft and sailboats.
S. Chandrashekar
He was born in 1910 in Lahore. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1983 for his physics and mathematical theory of black holes.
SatyendraNath Bose
He was born in 1894 in Calcutta. He was an Indian physicist who specialised in quantum mechanics. He is most remembered for his role in particles ‘bosons’.
MeghnadSaha
He was born in 1893 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is best known for the thermal ionisation of elements and this led him to the formulation of Saha Equation.
Jagadish Chandra Bose
He was born in 1858 in Bikrampur, West Bengal. He was a polymath, physicist, biologist, botanist and archaeologist.
Vikram Sarabhai
He is considered as the father of India’s space programme. He was born in 1919 in Ahmedabad. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1966 and the Padma Vubhushan after his death in 1972.
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