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Scientists, researchers and pioneers of discovery.
9 profiles
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A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Aerospace scientist and 11th President of India
1931 – 2015
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Vikram Sarabhai
Physicist and father of India’s space programme
1919 – 1971
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Srinivasa Ramanujan
Self-taught mathematician whose results still shape number theory
1887 – 1920
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Satyendra Nath Bose
Physicist after whom bosons are named
1894 – 1974
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Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Founder of Biocon and pioneer of Indian biotechnology
Born 1953
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Kalpana Chawla
NASA astronaut; first woman of Indian origin in space
1962 – 2003
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Jagadish Chandra Bose
Physicist and plant biologist; pioneer of radio and microwave research
1858 – 1937
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Homi J. Bhabha
Nuclear physicist and father of India’s nuclear programme
1909 – 1966
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C. V. Raman
Physicist; Nobel laureate who discovered the Raman effect
1888 – 1970