15 Famous Indian Scientists

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15 Famous Indian Scientists and their Inventions

S. No. Scientists Their Inventions

1

Prafulla Chandra Ray

Famous academician and chemist,

known for being the founder of Bengal

Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals, India’s

first pharmaceutical company

2

Salim Ali Naturalist who helped develop

Ornithology; also known as the

“birdman of India”

3

Srinivasa Ramanujan

Mathematician known for his brilliant

contributions to contributions to

mathematical analysis, number theory,

infinite series and continued fractions

4

C. V. Raman Physicist who won Nobel Prize in 1930

for his Raman Effect

5

Homi Jehangir Bhabha

Theoretical physicist; best known as

the chief architect of the Indian atomic

energy program

S. No. Scientists Their Inventions

6

Jagadish Chandra Bose

Physicist, biologist and archaeologist

who pioneered the investigation of

radio and microwave optics

7

Satyendra Nath Bose

Mathematician and physicist; best

known for his collaboration with

Albert Einstein in formulating a theory

related to the gas like qualities of

electromagnetic radiation

8

A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Known for his crucial role in the

development of India’s missile

and nuclear weapons programs

9

Har Gobind Khorana

Biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in

1968 for demonstrating how the

nucleotides in nucleic acids control the

synthesis of proteins

10

S.S. Abhyankar

Mathematician; famous for his

outstanding contributions to algebraic

geometry

11

Meghnad Saha

Astrophysicist who developed the Saha

equation, which explains chemical and

physical conditions in stars

S. No. Scientists Their Inventions

12

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Astrophysicist won the Nobel Prize in

1983 for his research on the

evolutionary stages of massive stars

13

Raj Reddy

A.M. Turing Award-winning computer

scientist, best known for his work

related to large scale artificial

intelligence systems

14

Birbal Sahni

Paleobotanist known for his research

on the fossils of the Indian

subcontinent

15

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis Statistician and Physicist who founded

the Indian Statistical Institute

Total 15 Muslims = 2