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February 19 , 2015
15 Amazing Indian
Scientists We All
Should Know About
Osien Kuumar
SW Staff Writer
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India is full of geniuses and innovators who have made us proud.
Needless to say, our country's contributions to the field of science are
some of the greatest. But here's the thing. Most of these scientists are
either not well-known or not talked about enough. The years of hard
work that these people have put in is immensely applaudable
and deserves our attention.
If you haven't heard of them, here are 15 lesser-talked about Indian
innovators that you must take out time to read about:
1. Yellapragada Subbarow
Even if you don't understand the technicalities, I'm sure you know
what cancer is. This Indianbiochemist discovered the function
of adenosine triphosphate as an energy source in the cell, and
developed methotrexate for the treatment of cancer! Guess who's
helping us out, immensely?
Source: Wikimedia
2. Satyendra Nath Bose
He is 'one of those' who actually met Albert Einstein to formulate a
theory related to the gas-like qualities of electromagnetic radiation!
Indeed a brilliant mathematician and physicist.
Source: Changeminds
3. Vinod Dham
He is popularly known as the Father of the Pentium Chip because of his
contributions in the development of Pentium Processor for Intel. No
wonder Intel is one of the world's largest and highest valued
semiconductor chip makers!
Source: Economictimes
4. Jagdish Chandra Bose
If you love listening to the radio, you should know the first public
demonstration of radio waves for communication was made by Mr Bose
in 1895. A true pioneer in communications!
Source: ajcbosecollege
5. Narinder Singh Kapany
Regarded as an unsung hero by Fortune Magazine, his earlier works
led to the invention of optic fibers. Thank him for those pretty optic-light
lamps at your place!
Source: Parrikar
6. Prafulla Chandra Ray
Guess who's the founder of India's first pharmaceutical company,
Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals? Hats off to this amazing chemist
and entrepreneur!
Source: Kabirsumanonline
7. S.S. Abhyankar
This mathematician is famous for his outstanding contributions to
algebraic geometry. Now you know who to blame for all the
cumbersome algebra problems!
Source: Cspurdue
8. Meghnad Saha
We may not understand the fundas behind the astrological crap we
hear everyday. But this astrophysicist developed the Saha equation
which explains chemical and physical conditions in stars. It is
considered as the twelfth most important landmark in the history of
astronomy!
Source: IloveIndia
9. Har Gobind Khorana
Two words. Genetic code. He won a Nobel Prize in 1968 for his
outstanding work in the field and is the first person to segregate the
DNA parts and chains of nucleotides. But how many of us have heard of
him?
Source: Newsoffice
10. Dr Raj Reddy
If you have heard of artificial intelligence, then you must know the man
behind its inception. He is the winner of the Turing
Award, accredited with Padma Bhushan and a key faculty member of
Stanford and Carnegie Mellon for more than 40 years.
Source: rgukt
11. Gopalaswamy Doraiswamy Naidu
How does an electric motor work? Well, because of him! He is referred
to as the Edison of India and has manufactured the first electric motor in
India, in 1937. But that's not all! His other inventions include super-thin
shaving blades, a distance adjuster for film cameras, a fruit juice
extractor, a tamper-proof vote-recording machine and a kerosene-run
fan!
Source: Wikimedia
12. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
So he graduated with a degree in physics before reaching his twentieth
birthday, is a child prodigy and The Chandrasekhar Limit is named after
him! Insane right? For the bulk of work that he's done, he also won a
Nobel Prize.
Source: Physik
13. G.N.Ramachandran
Along with his major contributions in Physics and Biology, he discovered
the ways to describe the 3-D structure of proteins well before the same
was done with crystallography. Amazing, right? He also
created the Ramachandran plot for understanding peptide structure and
was the first to propose a triple-helical model for the structure
of collagen.
Source: Iucr
14. Ashoke Sen
A legendary physicist of his time, 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".
Currently, a professor at the Harish-Chandra Research
Institute, Allahabad, he is also the Morningstar Visiting Professor
at MIT.
Source: Quora
15. Aneesur Rahman
Have you heard about the Aneesur Rahman Prize for computational
physics? This man has an award in his honour for being the father of
molecular dynamics, a discipline of physics that utilizes computers to
simulate microscopic behavior of physical systems. His study of liquid
argon in 1964 started an entire field of study!
Source: hcurocks
Special mention: Hemendra Nath Chatterjee
We weren't aware of the Diarrhoea treatment until he showed us how.
Let's remember him as the Bengali scientist who was the first to
formulate and demonstrate the effectiveness of Orally Rehydrated
Saline for diarrhoea management.
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