Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
7 November 1888 - 21 November 1970 (aged 82) Madras,India
Raman was honoured with a large number of honorary doctorates and memberships of scientific societies. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society early in his career (1924) and knighted in 1929. In 1930 he won the Nobel Prize in Physics. In 1941 he was awarded the Franklin Medal. In 1954 he was awarded the Bharat Ratna.
He was also awarded the Lenin Peace Prize in 1957.
He was also awarded the Lenin Peace Prize in 1957.
India celebrates National Science Day on 28 February of every year to commemorate the discovery of the Raman effect in 1928.
Har Gobind Khorana
January 9, 1922 Raipur, Punjab,India (now Pakistan)
Har Gobind Khorana is an Indian-born American biochemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley for research that helped to show how the nucleotides in nucleic acids, which carry the genetic code of the cell, control the cell’s synthesis of proteins. Khorana and Nirenberg were also awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University in the same year.
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
October 19, 1910 - August 21, 1995 (aged 84) Lahore, British India [now in Pakistan]
He won the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics for key discoveries that led to the currently accepted theory on the later evolutionary stages of massive stars
G.N.Ramachandran
Kerala, India,His creation of the Ramachandran plot for understanding peptide structure
Satyen Nath Bose
1 January 1894 - 4 February 1974 (aged 80) Calcutta,India
Mathematics,Physics,Bose gas
J.C.Bose
30 November 1858 -23 November 1937 Bengal,India
plants can "feel pain, understand affection etc."
Homi Jahangir Bhaba
He was an Indian nuclear physicist who played a major role in the development of the Indian atomic energy program and is considered to be the father of India's nuclear program
Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai
12 August 1919 - 31 December 1971 Ahmedabad,India
He was an Indian physicist. He is considered to be the father of the Indian space program. The establishment of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) was one of his greatest achievements.
Manali Kallat Vainu Bappu
August 10, 1927 – August 19, 1982 Madras,India
He was an Indian astronomer and president of the International Astronomical Union. Bappu helped establish several astronomical institutions in India——including the Vainu Bappu Observatory named after him—and also contributed to the establishment of the modern Indian Institute of Astrophysics. In 1957, he discovered the Wilson-Bappu effect jointly with American astronomer Olin Chaddock Wilson.