Har Gobind Khorana

Har Gobind Khorana (9 January 1922 – 9 November 2011) was an Indian American biochemist. While on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin, he shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley for research that showed the order of nucleotides in nucleic acids, which carry the genetic code of the cell and control the cell’s synthesis of proteins. Khorana and Nirenberg were also awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University in the same year.

Fields

• Molecular biology

Known for

• First to demonstrate the role of nucleotides in protein synthesis

Awards

• Nobel Prize in Medicine (1968)
• Gairdner Foundation International Award (1980)
• Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
• ForMemRS (1978)
• Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
• Padma Vibhushan
• Willard Gibbs Award (1974)

Institutions

• MIT (1970–2007)
• University of Wisconsin, Madison (1960–70)
• University of British Columbia (1952–60)
• University of Cambridge (1950–52)
• Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (1948–49)

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Swapan Chattopadhyay is a particle accelerator physicist noted for his pioneering contributions of innovative concepts, techniques and developments in high energy particle colliders, coherent and incoherent light sources, ultrafast sciences in the femto- and atto- second regimes, superconducting linear accelerators and various applications of interaction of particle and light beams.

Fields

• Physics

Institutions

• Northern Illinois University and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (2014–)
• Cockcroft Institute (2007–2014)
• Universities of Liverpool, Manchester and Lancaster, UK (2007–2014)
• Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (2001–2007)
• University of California at Berkeley (1974–1982, 1984–2001, 2010–)
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (1976–1982, 1984–2001)
• CERN (1982–1984, 2008–)

Known for

• Particle accelerator science and technology

Awards

• Fellow of American Physical Society,
• American Association for the Advancement of Science,
• Institute of Physics (UK), and
• the Royal Society of Arts (UK)

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Srinivasa Ramanujan was an Indian mathematician who lived during the British Rule in India. Though he had almost no formal training in pure mathematics, he made substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems considered to be unsolvable.

During his short life, Ramanujan independently compiled nearly 3,900 results (mostly identities and equations). Many were completely novel; his original and highly unconventional results, such as the Ramanujan prime, the Ramanujan theta function, partition formulae and mock theta functions, have opened entire new areas of work and inspired a vast amount of further research.

Known for

• Landau–Ramanujan constant
• Mock theta functions
• Ramanujan conjecture
• Ramanujan prime
• Ramanujan–Soldner constant
• Ramanujan theta function
• Ramanujan’s sum
• Rogers–Ramanujan identities
• Ramanujan’s master theorem
• Ramanujan–Sato series

Awards

• Fellow of the Royal Society

Fields

• Mathematics

Institutions

• Trinity College, Cambridge

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Rajesh Gopakumar (born 1967 in Kolkata, India) a theoretical physicist is director of the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS-TIFR) in Bangalore, India. He was previously a professor at Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI) in Allahabad, India. He is known for his work on topological string theory.

Awards

• Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award,
• ICTP Prize

Fields

• String Theory,
• Theoretical Physics

Institutions

• Harish-Chandra Research Institute
• Institute for Advanced Study

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Anil Kumar Gain (1 February 1919 – 7 February 1978) (also spelt Anil Kumar Gayen) was an Indian mathematician and statistician best known for his works on the Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient in the field of applied statistics, with his colleague Ronald Fisher. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Henry Ellis Daniels, who was the then President of the Royal Statistical Society. He was honoured as a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and the famous Cambridge Philosophical Society.

Gain was the president of the statistics section of the Indian Science Congress Association, as well as the head of the Department of Mathematics at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He later went on to found Vidyasagar University, naming it after the famous social reformer of the Bengali renaissance, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar.

Fields

• Mathematics and Statistics

Institutions

• University of Cambridge
• University of Calcutta
• Presidency College, Calcutta
• Indian Statistical Institute
• Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

Awards

• RSS
• FCPS

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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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Salim Yusuf (born November 26, 1952) is an Indian-born Canadian physician, the Marion W. Burke Chair in Cardiovascular Disease at McMaster University Medical School and currently the President of the World Heart Federation, a world-renowned cardiologist and epidemiologist. In 2001, he published a landmark study that proved the benefits of clopidogrel in acute coronary syndrome without ST elevation.

Known for

• President of the World Heart Federation

Awards

•   Rhodes Scholarship
• Canadian Medical Hall of Fame
• Canada Gairdner Wightman Award

Fields

• Medicine
•  Cardiology
• Epidemiology

Institutions

• Population Health Research Institute
•  McMaster University Medical School
• National Institutes of Health

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        Salim Moizuddin Abdul Ali (12 November 1896 – 20 June 1987) was an Indian ornithologist and naturalist. Sometimes referred to as the “birdman of India”, Salim Ali was among the first Indians to conduct systematic bird surveys across India and wrote several bird books that popularised ornithology in India.

        He became a key figure behind the Bombay Natural History Society after 1947 and used his personal influence to garner government support for the organisation, create the Bharatpur bird sanctuary (Keoladeo National Park) and prevent the destruction of what is now the Silent Valley National Park. Along with Sidney Dillon Ripley he wrote the landmark ten volume Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan, a second edition of which was completed after his death.

         He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1958 and the Padma Vibhushan in 1976, India’s third and second highest civilian honours respectively. Several species of birds, a couple of bird sanctuaries and institutions have been named after him.

Fields

• Ornithology
• Natural history

Awards

• Padma Bhushan (1958)
•  Padma Vibhushan (1976)

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            Anil Kakodkar (born 11 November 1943) is an Indian nuclear scientist and mechanical engineer. He was the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India and the Secretary to the Government of India, he was the Director of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay from 1996–2000. He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India’s second highest civilian honour, on 26 January 2009.

            Apart from playing a major role in India’s nuclear tests asserting sovereignty, Kakodkar champions India’s self-reliance on thorium as a fuel for nuclear energy.

Known for

• Smiling Buddha
• Pokhran-II
• Indian nuclear program

Awards

• Padma Shri (1998)
• Padma Bhushan (1999)
• Padma Vibhushan (2009)

Fields

• Mechanical Engineering

Institutions

• Atomic Energy Commission of India
• Department of Atomic Energy
• Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC)

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Pandurang Sadashiv Khankhoje

                Pandurang Sadashiv Khankhoje (7 November 1884 – 22 January 1967) was an Indian revolutionary, scholar, agricultural scientist and historian who was among the founding fathers of the Ghadar Party.

                Khankhoje was born in November 1884 to a Marathi family at Wardha, where his father worked as a petition-writer. Young Khankhoje spent his childhood in Wardha, where he completed his primary and middle school education before moving to Nagpur for higher education. He was at the time inspired by the nationalist work of Bal Gangadhar Tilak.

               At some time in the first decade of the 1900s, Khankhoje left India on a voyage that ultimately saw him settle in the United States. Here he enrolled in the Washington State College (now called Washington State University), graduating in 1913. His earliest nationalist work abroad dates back to the time around 1908 when he, along with Pandit Kanshi Ram founded the Indian Independence League in Portland, Oregon. His works also brought him close to other Indian nationalists in United States at the time, including Taraknath Das.

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C. V. Raman

Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (7 November 1888 – 21 November 1970) was an Indian physicist born in the former Madras Province in India presently the state of Tamil Nadu, who carried out ground-breaking work in the field of light scattering, which earned him the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics. He discovered that when light traverses a transparent material, some of the deflected light changes wavelength. This phenomenon, subsequently known as Raman scattering, results from the Raman effect.  In 1954, India honoured him with its highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna.

Known for

• Raman effect

Fields 

• Physics

Awards

• Knight Bachelor (1929)
• Hughes Medal (1930)
• Nobel Prize in Physics (1930)
• Bharat Ratna Ribbon.svg Bharat Ratna (1954)
• Lenin Peace Prize (1957)
• Fellow of the Royal Society

Institutions

• Indian Finance Department
• University of Calcutta
• Banaras Hindu University
• Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
• Indian Institute of Science
• Raman Research Institute

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G. Madhavan Nair

G. Madhavan Nair (born October 31, 1943, erstwhile Travancore, presently Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala) is the former Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation and Secretary to the Department of Space, Government of India since September 2003 and was also the Chairman, Space Commission. He was succeeded by K. Radhakrishnan. He was also the Chairman of Governing Body of the Antrix Corporation, Bangalore. Madhavan Nair was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India’s second highest civilian honour, on January 26, 2009. He also served as the Chairman, Board of Governors, Indian Institute of Technology Patna until he stepped down voluntarily due to his alleged involvement in Antrix-Devas deal.

Known for

• Indian Space Program

Awards

• Padma Bhushan (1998)
• Padma Vibhushan (2009)

Fields

• Rocket Technology
• Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Institutions

• Indian Space Research Organisation
• Bhabha Atomic Research Center

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Narinder Singh Kapany

Narinder Singh Kapany (born 31 October 1926) is an Indian-born American Sikh physicist known for his work in fibre optics. He was named as one of the seven ‘Unsung Heroes’ by Fortune in their ‘Businessmen of the Century’ issue (1999-11-22).[4][5][6] He is also known as “Father of Fiber Optics”. The term fibre optics was coined by Singh Kapany in 1956. He is a former IOFS officer.

Known for

• Pioneering work on Fiber optics

Awards

• Pravasi Bharatiya Samman
• The Excellence 2000 Award
• FREng (1998)

Fields

• Physics

Institutions

• Agra University
• Ordnance Factories Board
• Imperial College of Science
• British Royal Academy of Engineering
• Optical Society of America
• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Professor at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
• University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC)
• Stanford University

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Homi Jehangir Bhabha (30 October 1909 – 24 January 1966) was an Indian nuclear physicist, founding director, and professor of physics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR). Colloquially known as “father of the Indian nuclear programme”, Bhabha was also the founding director of the Atomic Energy Establishment, Trombay (AEET) which is now named the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in his honor. TIFR and AEET were the cornerstone of Indian development of nuclear weapons which Bhabha also supervised as director.

Known for

• Indian nuclear programme
• Cascade process of Cosmic radiations
• point particles
• Bhabha Scattering
• Theoretical prediction of Muon

Awards

• Adams Prize (1942)
• Padma Bhushan (1954)
• Fellow of the Royal Society

Fields

• Nuclear Physics

Institutions

• Atomic Energy Commission of India
• Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
• Cavendish Laboratory
• Indian Institute of Science
• Trombay Atomic Energy Establishment

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Vijay P. Bhatkar is an Indian computer scientist, IT leader and educationalist. He is best known as the architect of India’s national initiative in supercomputing where he led the development of Param supercomputers. He is a Maharashtra Bhushan, Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan awardee. Indian computer magazine Dataquest has placed him among the star pioneers who shaped India’s IT industry. He was the founder executive director of C-DAC and is currently working on the developing Exascale supercomputing mission for India.

Known for

• Architect of PARAM series of Supercomputers

Awards

• Padma Shri
• Padma Bhushan
• Maharashtra Bhushan

Institutes

• Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
• Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
• Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology

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Harish-Chandra (11 October 1923 – 16 October 1983) was an Indian American mathematician and physicist who did fundamental work in representation theory, especially harmonic analysis on semisimple Lie groups.

Fields

• Mathematics
• Physics

Institutions 

•    Indian Institute of Science
• Harvard University
• Columbia University
• Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
• Institute for Advanced Study

Awards

• Fellow of the Royal Society
• Cole Prize in Algebra (1954)
• Srinivasa Ramanujan Medal

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Sivaraj Ramseshan (October 10, 1923 – December 29, 2003) was an Indian scientist known for his work in the field of crystallography. Ramaseshan served as Director of the Indian Institute of Science and was awarded the Padma Bhushan. Ramaseshan is the nephew of Indian scientist and Nobel laureate Sir C. V. Raman and cousin of Subramanyan Chandrasekhar.

Fields

• Physics

Institutions

• Indian Institute of Science
• Indian Institute of Technology

Awards

• Padma Bhushan

As scientist

On completion of his doctorate, Ramaseshan joined the Indian Institute of Science as a lecturer. During this time, he developed an interest in X-ray crystallography and was instrumental in improving the material science division in the National Aerospace Laboratories. Ramaseshan also taught as a professor in the Indian Institute of Technology.

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Ravi Sankaran (October 4, 1963 – January 17, 2009) was an Indian ornithologist whose work concerned the conservation of several threatened birds of India. He was the Director of the Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. Ravi studied at the Rishi Valley School, Madanapalli, Andhra Pradesh; obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology from Loyola College, Chennai and a doctorate from Bombay Natural History Society Ravi joined the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) in 1985 in the endangered species project on the great Indian bustard (Ardeotis nigriceps) and florican species (family Otididae) and played a role in developing recovery plans for these species. He also established Florican Watch, involving local people.

Ravi Sankaran studied several endangered birds of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. His work on the Narcondam hornbill, Nicobar megapode and the edible-nest swiftlets aided the development of conservation management of these species. Ravi was also involved in a project Strengthening community conservation efforts in Nagaland: a programme to impart technical support on biodiversity conservation and livelihood options to communities, a collaborative programme between the Nagaland Empowerment of People through Economic Development, Kohima (NEPED), and SACON, in collaboration with other organisations such as Kalpavriksh, Pune; Ecosystems India, Guwahati; Aranayak, Assam; ATREE, Bangalore; and Nature Conservation Foundation, Mysore.funded by Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, Mumbai.

Awards

• WTI Endangered Species Award-2004

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Giridhar Madras is an Indian professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

Education

Madras speaks four languages, English, Hindi, Tamil, and Kannada. Madras received his chemical engineering degree from Indian Institute of Technology at Madras in 1990. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in chemical engineering from Texas A&M University, United States, in 1994. Subsequently, he worked in the University of California at Davis, USA. He returned to India as an Assistant Professor of chemical engineering at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1998.

Fields

• Chemistry

Awards

• Scopus Young Scientist Award from Elsevier for being the most cited young author in engineering
• Presidential Swarnajayanthi fellowship by the Department of Science and Technology, India, 2006
• Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar prize from CSIR, India, 2009
• J.C. Bose National fellowship, 2014

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Kedareswar Banerjee (15 September 1900 – 30 April 1975) was an X-ray crystallographer and director of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata. Early in his career he determined the structures of naphthalene and anthracene. In 1931, he worked with Sir William Henry Bragg and developed one of the first direct methods of crystal structure determination. He was Professor of Physics at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science from 1943 to 1952 and Director of the Association from 1959 until his retirement in 1965. Between 1952 and 1959 he was Head of the Department of Physics at Allahabad University.

               His interests in crystallography were widespread and, with his death, India has lost a renowned teacher. K. Banerjee joined the research group of Sir C. V. Raman at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Calcutta, a premier Indian research institute of India. He worked in various institutions including IACS, the India Meteorological Department, University of Dhaka and Allahabad University and finally retired as the Director of IACS, Calcutta in 1965.

Field

• X-ray Crystallographic

Institutions

• University of Allahabad,
•  India Meteorological Department, University of Dhaka,
•  Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science

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Koppillil Radhakrishnan (born 29 August 1949) is an Indian scientist. He is chairman of the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, having taken the position in December 2014, and is chairman for the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology.Radhakrishnan previously served as chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) between 2009 and 2014. He is a life fellow of the Indian Geophysical Union and is also an accomplished vocalist (Carnatic music) and Kathakali artist.

Fields

• Electrical engineering
• Space research

Awards

• Padma Bhushan (2014)

Radhakrishnan hails from Irinjalakuda in Thrissur district, Kerala. After his studies from Christ College, Irinjalakuda, he completed his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1970 from the Government Engineering College, Thrissur. He started his career in the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) as an Avionics Engineer at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Trivandrum, in 1971.

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Mambillikalathil Govind Kumar Menon, FRS (28 August 1928 – 22 November 2016)also known as M. G. K. Menon, was a physicist and policy maker from India. He had a prominent role in the development of science and technology in India over four decades. One of his most important contributions was nurturing the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, which his mentor Homi J. Bhabha founded in 1945.

Born

• Mambillikalathil Govind Kumar Menon
• 28 August 1928
• Mangalore, Karnataka, India

Field

• Physics

Institutions

• Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
• Indian Space Research Organisation
• Department of Science & Technology, Government of India

Awards

• Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (1960),
• Fellow of the Royal Society(FRS)(1970)
• Abdus Salam Medal (1996)

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Roddam Narasimha (born 20 July 1933) is an Indian aerospace scientist and fluid dynamicist. He was a Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Director of National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) and the Chairman of Engineering Mechanics Unit at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore, India. He is now an Honorary Professor at JNCASR and concurrently holds the Pratt & Whitney Chair in Science and Engineering at the University of Hyderabad. Narasimha has been awarded the Padma Vibushan, India’s second highest civilian award, in 2013.

Education and career

He obtained his BE from Mysore University , from University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering in 1953 and his ME from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1955. He worked with Satish Dhawan during his time at IISc. He then worked with Hans Liepmann at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States to obtain his PhD degree in 1961.

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Vinod Johri

Vinod Johri (10 June 1935) was an Indian astrophysicist. He was an eminent cosmologist, a retired professor of astrophysics at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and an emeritus professor at Lucknow University since 1995. Johri had over 75 research publications and articles published in pioneering journals. His major contributions in cosmological research included ‘power law inflation, genesis of quintessence fields of dark energy and phantom cosmologies’. He was the co-author of the first model of power law inflation in Brans–Dicke theory along with C. Mathiazhagan. He was honored by Uttar Pradesh Government by Research Award of the Council of Science & Technology (CSIR).

Institution 

• Indian Institute of Technology
• Lucknow University
• Gorakhpur University
• Allahabad University

Fields

• Astrophysics
•  Physics
•  Cosmology

Johri spent over 45 years researching in cosmology, acting as a research guide and principal investigator of various research projects of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Department of Science & Technology and University Grants Commission of India. Johri was a Commonwealth Fellow, a senior visitor at Cambridge University (UK) and a Fellow of Royal Astronomical Society of London. He worked as consultant for UNESCO at United Nations Development Program[6] in Iran and as a DAAD Fellow at University of Mainz (Germany), as a visiting scientist at Hansen Lab (Gravity Probe B Group) Stanford University (USA) and as an International Scholar at Fine Theoretical Physics Institute at University of Minnesota at Minneapolis (USA). He died in Dallas, USA at the age of 78 due to complications arising from Kidney failure.

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Charusita Chakravarty (1964 – 2016) was an Indian academic and scientist. She was a professor of Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi since 1999. In 2009 she was conferred Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in the field of Chemical Science. In 1999, she received B.M. Birla Science Award. She was an Associate Member of the Centre for Computational Material Science, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore.

Research fields

• Theoretical Chemistry and Chemical Physics
• Classical and Quantum Monte Carlo
• Molecular Dynamics
• Structure and Dynamics of Liquids
• Water and Hydration
• Nucleation
• Self-assembly

Awards

• Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (2009)
• B.M. Birla Science Award (1999)
• Indian National Science Academy Medal for Young Scientists (1996)
• Anil Kumar Bose Memorial Award of Indian National Science Academy (1999)
• Fellowship of Indian Academy of Sciences (2006)
• Fellowship of the Department of Science and Technology (India) (2004)

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Man Mohan Sharma (born May 1, 1937 in Jodhpur, Rajasthan) is an Indian chemical engineer. He was educated at Jodhpur, Mumbai and Cambridge. At the age of 27 years, he was appointed Professor of Chemical Engineering in the Institute of Chemical Technology (UDCT), Mumbai. He later went on to become the Director of Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT/ UDCT/ UICT), the first chemical engineering professor to do so from ICT.

In 1990, he became the first Indian engineer to be elected as a Fellow of Royal Society, UK. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan (1987) and the Padma Vibhushan (2001) by the President of India. He has also been awarded the Leverhulme Medal of the Royal Society, the S.S. Bhatnagar Prize in Engineering Sciences (1973), FICCI Award (1981), the Vishwakarma medal of the Indian National Science Academy (1985), G.M. Modi Award (1991), Meghnad Saha Medal (1994), and an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (2001).

Field:

• Chemical Engineering

Awards

Professor Sharma is a recipient of a number of prestigious academic honours and awards including the 1977 Moulton Medal of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, and is himself commemorated in the M M Sharma Medal awarded by the same institution for outstanding research contributions.

He won the Leverhulme Medal of the Royal Society for “for his work on the dynamics of multi-phase chemical reactions in industrial processes”. He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan (2001), and Padma Bhushan (1987) by the President of India. He was INSA President (1989-90). He is a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, Honorary Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (India), Allahabad, Fellow of the Royal Society, London. Subsequently he was elected Honorary Fellow by the Royal Academy of Engineering and is Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Engineering.

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Dr. Shankar Abaji Bhise  was an Indian scientist. Bhise has to his credit 200 inventions, for about 40 of which he took patents. In 1910, Sir Ratan Tata set up the Tata-Bhise invention syndicate in order to finance Bhise’s inventions. Among his inventions were a washing compound and type-caster machines, including the Bhisotype which could output 1,200 characters a minute.

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Shivram Baburao Bhoje (born 9 April 1942) is a distinguished Indian nuclear scientist who worked in the field of fast-breeder nuclear reactor technology for forty years in the design, construction, operation, and research and development. Indian government has honoured him with Padma Shri in 2003, the fourth highest civilian award in India, for his distinguished service to science and engineering fields.

Professional

Bhoje completed one year training in Nuclear Science and Engineering at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre Training School and joined as a Scientific Officer at BARC, Trombay. He started working in the Fast Reactor Section for design of an experimental reactor. He was on a one-year deputation to the Centre d’Etudes Nucleare Cadarache, France, as a member of the design team of the 13-mW fast-breeder test reactor (FBTR) in 1969–70.

Field

• fast-breeder nuclear reactor

Awards

• Padma Shri, for his contribution to science and engineering 2003.
• H K Firodia awards for his contribution science and technology 2006.
• VASVIK Industrial Research Award, in the field of Mechanical Sciences and Technology, 1992.
• Sir Visvesvaraya Memorial Award from Engineers Foundation.

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Subbayya Sivasankaranarayana Pillai was an Nagercoil native Indian mathematician specialising in number theory. His contribution to Waring’s problem was described in 1950 by K. S. Chandrasekharan as “almost certainly his best piece of work and one of the very best achievements in Indian Mathematics since Ramanujan”.

Fields

• Mathematics

Known for

• Pillai’s conjecture
• Pillai’s arithmetical function
• Pillai prime

Contributions

He proved the Waring’s problem for K ? 6 in 1935 under the further condition of (3k +1)/ (2k – 1) ? [1.5k] + 1 head of Leonard Eugene Dickson who around the same time proved it for K ? 7.

He showed that g(k) = 2k + l -2 where l is the largest natural number  ? (3/2)k   and hence computed the precise value of  g(6) = 73.

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Sandip Trivedi  is an Indian theoretical physicist working at Tata Institute for Fundamental Research (TIFR) at Mumbai, India, while he is its current Director. He is well known for his contributions to string theory, in particular finding (along with Renata Kallosh, Andrei Linde, and Shamit Kachru) the first models of accelerated expansion of the universe in low energy supersymmetric string. His research areas include string theory, cosmology and particle physics. He is now member of program advisory board of International Center for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS). He is also the recipient of the Infosys Prize 2010 in the category of Physical Sciences.

Fields

• Theoretical physics

Institutions

• Indian  Institute of Technology Kanpur
• California Institute of Technology
• Institute for Advanced Study
• TIFR

Notable awards

• Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award
• Infosys Prize
• TWAS Prize

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Har Gobind Khorana (9 January 1922 – 9 November 2011), was an Indian-American biochemist who shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley for research that showed how the order of nucleotides in nucleic acids, which carry the genetic code of the cell, control the cell’s synthesis of proteins. Khorana and Nirenberg were also awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University in the same year.

Khorana was born in Raipur, British India (today Tehsil Kabirwala, Punjab, Pakistan) and later moved to become an Indian citizen after the partition of 1947. 

Fields 

• Molecular biology

Institutions

• MIT (1970–2007)
• University of Wisconsin, Madison (1960–70)
• University of British Columbia (1952–60)
• University of Cambridge (1950–52)
• Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (1948–49)

Notable awards

• Nobel Prize in Medicine (1968)
• Gairdner Foundation International Award (1980)
• Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
• ForMemRS (1978)
• Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
• Padma Vibhushan
• Willard Gibbs Award

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• University of Rochester
• Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata

• Theoretical Physics

• William H.Riker University Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching (2006)
• Fulbright Fellowship (1997, 2006)
• Rockefeller Foundation Award (2004)
• Department of Energy Outstanding Junior Investigator (1983-1989)
• Edward Peck Curtis Award (1991)

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Patcha Ramachandra Rao (21 March 1942 – 10 January 2010) was a metallurgist and administrator. He has the unique distinction of being the only Vice-Chancellor (2002–05) of the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) who was also a student (1963–68) and faculty (1964–92) at that institution. From 1992 to 2002, Rao was the Director of the National Metallurgical Laboratory Jamshedpur. After his tenure as Vice-Chancellor of B.H.U., in 2005, he took the reins of the Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT) as its first Vice-Chancellor. He was to serve DIAT until his superannuation in 2007. From 2007 till the end, Rao was a Raja Ramanna Fellow at the International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials, in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.

Institutions

• Indian Institute of Technology (BHU)
• National Metallurgical Laboratory
• Defence Institute of Advanced Technology
• Indian Institute of Science, Osmania University?

Fields

• Metallurgy
• Material science
• Engineering

Awards

• Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (1985)
• National Metallurgist Award (2004)
• Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Gold Medal. INSA (2005)?

Honorary positions

·        President, The Asia-Pacific Academy of Materials (APAM), India Chapter

·        President, Indian Institute of Metals

·        Vice-President, Materials Research Society of India

·        Vice-President, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi.

·        Sectional President, Materials Science Section, Indian Science Congress