10 of the Most Famous Indian Scientists.

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10 of the Most Famous Indian Scientists

India was also a colonized nation by Great Britain. The Indian Independence Act was passed on the 15^th of August in the year 1947 thus becoming an independent nation.

Since then, they have been developing their status as an independent country by contributing to their economic growth.

The country has a formal education as one of its main sources of knowledge and skills. For this and other reasons, the population of India, which is very large up to about 1.38 billion people, has a good number of scientists. 

The country is trying its level best to create employment through the initialization of industries and educating its subjects.

This kind of haste development is being called for as a result of the earlier contributions done by Indian scientists and inventors who came up with theories and ideas.

This required to be developed further thus requiring more manpower and formal education knowledge.

Currently, India is ranked amongst the countries with the best hospitals in the world. In addition, they have the best cottage industry that is the main source of employment and income for her subjects.

It can be concluded that all the notable developments in India have been brought about by scientists some of them being inventors too.

The following are the most famous Indian scientists.

1. Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman

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C.V. Raman was born on the 7^th of November, 1888 in Trichinopoly Madras’ presidency, British India. He was an Indian physicist who was a light scattering expert.

He is famous for developing a spectrograph which he and his student K. S. Krishnan used to discover that if light transverses through a transparent material the wavelength and frequency of the deflected light change.

This phenomenon was later named after him, Raman scattering.

 He was awarded the fellow of the royal society award, Nobel Prize in physics in 1930, Lenin peace prize, Bharat Ratna, Matteucci medal, Hughes medal, and franklin medal. He died on the 21^st of November, 1970.

2. Homi J. Bhabha

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Bhabha was born on the 30^th of October, 1909 in Mumbai India. He was born in a wealthy family that he was enrolled in great educational institutions for his parents could afford. He was a physicist, founder-director, and professor of physics at the Tata Institute of fundamental research.

He is famous for developing the Indian nuclear program cascade process of cosmic radiation point particles, Bhabha scattering theoretical prediction of Muon in his field of nuclear physics. This is the program that brought to life atomic and nuclear bombs.

He received awards like Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), the Adams prize, and Padma Bhushan. He died at Mont Blanc in a plane crash of the Air India flight 101 on his way to Geneva on the 24^th of January, 1966 at 56 years of age.

3. Meghnad Saha

Meghnad Saha was born in Bangladesh on the 6^th of October, 1893. He was an astrophysicist and used to describe chemical and physical conditions in stars through which astronomers were able to relate the spectral classes of stars.

He is famous for the development of the thermal ionization equation in 1920 which related the elements ionizations state to temperature and pressure.  He was awarded the Fellow of the Royal Society award.

4. Satyendra Nath Bose

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Bose was born on the 1^st of January, 1894 in Kolkata India. He was a mathematician and physics theoretical specialist.

Bose is famous for his invention, in collaboration with Albert Einstein, he developed quantum mechanics in the early 1920s. The mechanics gave birth to Bose-Einstein condensate and Bose-Einstein statistics. The Bose-Einstein statistics was a theory development regarding the gas-like qualities of electromagnetic radiation.

He was awarded the Fellow of the royal society award and Padma Vibhushan. He died on the 4^th of February, 1974.

5. Srinivasa Ramanujan

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Ramanujan was born on the 22^nd of December, 1887 in Erode India. He was a mathematician who lived during British rule in India. He had very little formal training in mathematics.

He is famous for influencing several mathematical areas with the major ones being the contribution to number theory and infinite series as well as the fascinating formulas that can be used to calculate digits in unusual ways.

In his development was also the Landau-Ramanujan constant mock theta function, Ramanujan-Sato series, among others.

He was awarded the fellow of the royal society award. He died on the 26^th of April, 1920 in Kumbakonam.

6. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Abdul Kalam was born on the 15^th of October, 1931 in Rameswaram, India. He was an aerospace scientist by profession and a physics scholar. He was the 11^th president of India from 2002 to 2007. He was never married and thus didn’t have children.

Kalam is famous in India for his excellently played role in the development and operation of Indian missiles (AGNI and PRITHVI) and nuclear weapons programs.

The development of a low coronary stent importation cost was also his work. He died on the 27^th of July, 2015 at 83 years of age.

7. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was born on the 19^th of October, 1910 in Lahore Pakistan but spent his professional life in America. He was an Indian American mathematician and astrophysicist.

He is famous for discovering that massive stars can collapse under their gravity to reach enormous or even infinite densities. He shared a Nobel Prize in physics with William A. Fowler.

As a result, they worked on theoretical study of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars.

He was awarded other awards like the fellow of the royal society, the Copey medal among others. He died on the 21^st of August, 1995 in Chicago, United States.

8. Birbal Sahni

Birbal Sahni was born on the 14^th of November, 1891 in Bhera Pakistan. He was an Indian botanist and was married to Savitri Suri.

He was famous for inventions like Bennettitales, Pentoxylales, Homoxylon, and Rajmahalense. He was also a famous palaeobotanist and Indian pale botanist. He was the founder of the Birbal Sahni Institute of Paleobotany.

He died on the 10^th of April, 1949 in Lucknow, India.

9. Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai

Sarabhai was born on the 12^th of august, 1919. He was a physicist and astronomer.

He is famous for initiating space research and helping develop nuclear power in India. He is regarded as the founding father of the Indian Space Program.

The awards he received included the Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan awards. He died on the 30^th of December, 1971.

10. Har Gobind Khorana

Gobind Khorana was born on the 9^th of January, 1922 in Raipur, Pakistan. He was an Indian-American biochemist.

His family composed of his wife Esther Elizabeth Sibler and they three children namely; Emily Anne, Dave Roy, and Julia Elizabeth Khorana.

He is famous for being the first to demonstrate the role of nucleotides in protein synthesis. In this, he added details about which serial combinations of nucleotides forms which specific amino acids.

He shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or medicine with other scientists. He had also been rewarded with awards like the Louisa Gross Horwitz prize among others.

He died on the 9^th of November, 2011 in Boston Massachusetts, United States.

The above are the top 10 most famous Indian scientists who carried out various roles and contribute to great inventions of the world. The inventions ranged from physics to biology and chemistry fields.