Some Indian Pioneer Scientists

A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

The Missile Man of India

Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam played an important role in strengthening the defence capabilities of India. He is credited with the development of India's Agni and Prithvi missiles. He was conferred with Bharat Ratna in 1997. He also became the President of India in 2002.

Srinivasa Aiyangar Ramanujan

Greatest Mathematician of Modern India
He dedicated his life in generating the theories of numbers. His substantial contribution to the analytical theory of numbers and remarkable work on elliptic function, continued fraction, and infinite series, continue to be the basis of research for many modern day mathematicians.

Chandrasekhar Venkata Raman

Father of Indian Science

Sir C.V.Raman was a great physicist. He was the first Indian scientist to be awarded with the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930. The award was given for his discovery of the "Scattering Effect of Light"

J.C.BOSE

The Greatest Biologist

He was the first scientist in the world to claim that plants have life as they have the power of sensation. He made a number of pioneering discoveries in plant physiology which paved the path of research for modern scientists.

Homi Jahangir Bhabha

The Architect of Nuclear Science in Modern India

Dr. Homi J. Bhabha was a great nuclear scientist. He founded the Bhabh Atomic Research Centre (BARC) in Mumbai, India.

Vikram Sarabhai

Father of the Indian Space Program

He was the space scientist of India who contributed immensely towards the establishment of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). He convinced the government about the importance of a space programme for a developing country like India and successfully established the Indian Rocket Launching Station.

Raja Ramanna

Father of India's Nuclear Program

He was a nuclear scientist closely associated with India's first nuclear testing at Pokhran in 1974. He designed the nuclear reactor at Trombay.

Hargobind Khorana

The Famous Biochemist

He was an American scientist of Indian origin. He was among the scientists who deciphered the genetic code of human beings. Genetic code entails overall about the human being.

Venkatraman Ramakrishna

He is a scientist of Indian origin. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (molecular biology) in 2009 for his research on the structure and functions of the ribosomes.

SubrahmanyanChandrasekhar

He was an Indian-American astrophysicist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983 for his research about the structure and evolution of stars.