Category Great Indian Scientists , Indian Scientists

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 J.C Bose Fellowship Award, DST (2012).

Fields

• Functional Genomics;Structural & Computational Biology

Known for

• Open Source Drug Discovery for Affordable
• Healthcare

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Satyendra Nath Bose, FRS (Bengali: Sôtyendronath Bosu; 1 January 1894 – 4 February 1974) was an Indian physicist from Bengal specialising in theoretical physics. He is best known for his work on quantum mechanics in the early 1920s, providing the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate. A Fellow of the Royal Society, he was awarded India’s second highest civilian award, the Padma Vibhushan in 1954 by the Government of India.

Known for

• Bose–Einstein condensate
• Bose–Einstein statistics
• Bose–Einstein distribution
• Bose–Einstein correlations
• Bose gas
• Boson
• Ideal Bose Equation of State
• Photon gas

Awards

• Padma Vibhushan
• Fellow of the Royal Society

Fields

• Physics

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Raghunath Anant Mashelkar, also known as Ramesh Mashelkar. FREng, FIChemE (born on 1st January, 1943) is an Indian chemical engineer and a former Director General of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), a chain of 38 publicly funded industrial research and development institutions in India.

Awards

• Padma Vibhushan
• Padma Bhushan
• Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar
• G.D. Birla Award for Scientific Research
• FREng

Fields

• Chemical Engineering

Known for

• Intellectual Property Rights; R&D; Innovation

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Nitya Anand (born 1 January 1925 in Layallpur, British India) is a scientist who was the director of Central Drug Research Institute in Lucknow for several years. In 2005, Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC) appointed him chairman of its scientific committee. In 2012, he was awarded the Padma Shri by the Indian government.

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Ganapathi Thanikaimoni (1 January 1938 – 5 September 1986), often referred to as Thani was an Indian palynologist.

Known for

• Contributions to the science of palynology

Scientific career

Thani took a position of scientist in the newly founded (1960) Palynology Laboratory of the French Institute of Pondicherry (French: Institut Français de Pondichéry) under the direction of Dr. Prof. Guinet. In a few years Thani’s scientific and administrative abilities were recognized by his promotion to the directorship of the laboratory.

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Biman Bagchi (born in 1954) is an Indian biophysical chemist, theoretical chemist and an Amrut Mody Professor at the Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit of the Indian Institute of Science. He is known for his studies on statistical mechanics; particularly in the study of phase transition and nucleation, solvation dynamics, mode-coupling theory of electrolyte transport, dynamics of biological macromolecules (proteins, DNA etc.), protein folding, enzyme kinetics, supercooled liquids and protein hydration layer.

Known for

• Statistical Mechanics
• Solvation Dynamics
• Biological Water
• Mode Coupling Theory

Awards

• 1986 INSA Medal for Young Scientists
• 1990 INSA A. K. Bose Memorial Medal
• 1991 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize
• 1997 G. D. Birla Award
• 1998 TWAS Prize
• 2002 Indian Institute of Science Alumni Excellence Award
• 2003 Goyal Prize in Chemistry

Fields

• Biophysical Chemistry
• Theoretical Chemistry
• Statistical Mechanics

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