Category Great Scientist

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

To know more about C.V. Raman click C.V. Raman

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

To read more about G. Madhavan Nair click G. Madhavan Nair

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

To read more about N. S. Kapany  Click  Narinder Singh Kapany

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

To read more about Homi Jehangir Bhabha click H. J. Bhabha

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

To Read more about Vijay Bhatkar  Click Vijay Bhatkar 

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

To read more about Harish-Chandra click Harish-Chandra?