The Great Scientists of India

Satyendra Nath Bose & his contribution in the field of Science On January 1st, 1894, Satyendra Nath Bose was born in Kolkata, India (then Calcutta). Indian mathematician and physicist Satyendra Nath Bose is renowned for his collaboration with Albert Einstein on a hypothesis describing the gas-like characteristics of electromagnetic radiation. On February 4, 1974, Satyendra […]

Scientist, astronomer, and pioneer of space exploration, Vikram Sarabhai was also instrumental in India’s development of nuclear power. He was also the founder and chairman of the Space Applications Centre (1963–1971) and the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India. The Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), which is regarded as India’s birthplace of space sciences, […]

C. V. Raman was a pioneer in the field of physics and his work helped establish modern optics and lasers. He was not just ahead of his time, he was also ahead of the world and contributed significantly towards achieving a goal which has now become an integral part of our lives: light-based communication and […]

Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920) has been called the greatest mathematician of his generation. He was a largely self-taught Indian mathematician who had an incredible ability to see patterns in maths equations that are highly complicated and often branched out in many different directions; he discovered amazingly fruitful mathematical relationships between numbers using techniques that were completely […]