List of Indian scientists
This is a list of noted scientists from India.
Name | Field | Known for | Most noted award/fellowship | Year of death | Picture | |
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A.P.J Abdul Kalam | Aerospace engineering | President of India | Bharat Ratna | 2015 | ||
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (C.V Raman)[1] | Physics | Light scattering | Nobel Prize in Physics | 1970 | ||
Srinivasa Ramanujan | Mathematics | Contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions | Fellow of the Royal Society | 1920 | ||
Satyendra Nath Bose | Mathematics, physics | Bose–Einstein condensate and Bose–Einstein statistics | 1974 | |||
M. S. Swaminathan | Genetics | High-yielding varieties of wheat and rice in India | ||||
Raj Reddy | Computer science | Early pioneers of artificial intelligence | Turing Award | |||
Har Gobind Khorana | Biochemistry | First to show the role of nucleotides in protein synthesis | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (shared) | 2011 | ||
K. S. Chandrasekharan | Mathematics | 2017 | ||||
Hari Om Srivastava | Broadcasting | Socio-economic development by use of broadcasting in India | Knights Hospitaller |
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References
- ↑ The Nobel Prize in Physics 1930 Sir Venkata Raman Archived 2013-04-21 at the Wayback Machine, Official Nobel Prize biography, nobelprize.org