Science has always been an integral part of our lives. India is always known for being scientifically advanced from ancient to contemporary times. We can find its evidence in our various historic Indian texts and manuscripts. Some Indian scientists have transformed the world with their inventions and made history.
Here is the list of the top 10 Indian Scientists of India along with their inventions and awards.
Jagadish Chandra Bose was born on November 30, 1858, in Mymensingh, currently in Bangladesh.
Invention – “Crescograph”, in this research he stated that the plants are living entities by detecting very small motions within their tissues.
Awards & Honors
He died on 23rd November 1937 in Giridih, now in Jharkhand.
M Visvesvaraya was born on 15 September 1861 in Muddenahalli near Chikkaballapur. His birth anniversary is commemorated as Engineer’s Day every year.
Inventions
He invented the Block System – automated doors that were utilized in the conditions of overflow.
He is known for his contribution to harnessing water resources and for constructing and consolidating dams across the country.
Awards and Honors
He died on 14th April 1962.
Prafulla Chandra Ray was born on 2nd August 1861. He was an eminent educationist, industrialist, chemist, historian, and philanthropist. Known as the father of Indian Chemistry.
Inventions
He provided a thesis on ‘Conjugated Sulfate of Copper Magnesium Group: A Study of Isomorphs Mixtures and Molecular Combinations’.
He discovered “Mercurous Nitrite”.
He founded the Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals company.
Awards and Honors
He died on 16th June 1944 in Kolkata.
Shrinivasa Ramanujan, one of the most prominent mathematical geniuses of India was born on 22nd December 1887 in Tamil Nadu.
Inventions
With his incredible knowledge of Mathematics, he had contributed to numerous mathematical fields such as number theory, infinite series, complex analysis, and continued fractions.
He created an incredibly efficient method of measuring pi in the early 20th century which was later enforced into computer algorithms.
Awards and Honors
He died on 26th April 1920.
CV Raman was a notable scientist born in Tiruchirapalli on November 7, 1888.
His Invention – Scattering of light in 1930.
He discovered that –
“When light traverses a transparent material, some of the deflected light changes in wavelength. This phenomenon is now called the Raman scattering and is the result of the Raman effect.”
Awards & Honors –
He died due to natural causes on 21 November 1970.
He was born on 1st January 1894 in Kolkata. In the 1920s, he was knowns for his contribution to quantum mechanics.
Invention
Awards and Honors
He took his last breath on 4th February 1974 in Calcutta, India.
Homi J. Bhabha was born on 30th October 1909 in Bombay. In 1948, he became the first chairperson of the atomic energy commission of India. He played a significant role to get India’s Nuclear Programme started that’s why he is known as the Father of the Indian Nuclear Program.
Invention
Awards & Honors –
He took his last breath on 24th January 1966 in an airplane crash near Mont Blanc.
He was born on 19th October 1910 in Lahore, Punjab. He contributed to the field of Astrophysics, General Relativity, Fluid dynamics, and Radiation.
Inventions – His contribution in the following work-
Awards and Honors
He died on 21st August 1995 in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Vikram Sarabhai, an Indian physicist, as well as an industrialist, was born on 12th August 1919 in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
Invention
Awards and Honors
He died on 30th December 1971 in Trivandrum, Kerala, India.
He was born on 15th October 1931 in Rameswaram, India. We all know him as a poet, teacher, leader, motivator, missile man, and many more names.
Inventions
Invented ballistic missile and launch vehicle technology, and earned the title of ‘Missile Man of India’.
Development and operationalization of “AGNI” and “PRITHVI” missiles.
Awards and Honors
He died on 27th July 2015 in Shillong, Meghalaya, India.
So, here is the list of the top 10 scientists of India and their inventions.
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