Janaki Ammal: India’s First Woman PhD in Botany
Edavaleth Kakkat Janaki Ammal is considered a pioneer in Botany who worked on plant breeding, cytogenetics and phytogeography. Kakkat Janaki Ammal was one of the first women to receive a …
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Daulat Singh Kothari: Story of an exceptional Educationist and Scientist
Daulat Singh Kothari was an eminent Indian scientist and great educationist. He is highly appreciated for his contributions to the entire spectrum of Indian education from elementary level to University level. …
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Anna Mani: Pioneer Indian Meteorologist
Anna Mani (Anna Modayil Mani) was an Indian physicist and a distinguished meteorologist. She was one of India’s pioneering women scientists. Mani was the former Deputy Director-General of the Indian …
Gopalaswamy Doraiswamy Naidu: Edison Of India
G.D. Naidu or Gopalswamy Doraiswamy Naidu, fondly remembered as “Edison of India” and “The Wealth Creator of Coimbatore“, is credited for initiating the industrial revolution in the country. He had …
Homi Jehangir Bhabha: Father Of Indian Nuclear Program
Padma Bhushan Homi Jehangir Bhabha was an Indian nuclear physicist and is often considered as the ‘father of the Indian nuclear program’. Early Life Bhabha was born on 30th October …
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Birbal Sahni: The Story Of An Indian Paleobotanist
Professor Birbal Sahni FRS was an Indian paleobotanist, a branch of botany that deals with the biological reconstruction of past environments and identification of plants that remain from geological contexts. …
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Venkatraman Radhakrishnan
Venkatraman Radhakrishnan (18 May 1929 – 3 March 2011), was an internationally renowned Radio Astronomer and member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He was Professor Emeritus of the …
Salim Ali: The Birdman of India
Salim Ali is one of the greatest ornithologists and naturalists in India. He worked to protect and document birds and their habitats. He was the first Indian to systematically conduct …
Prafulla Chandra Ray: Father of Indian Chemical Science
Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray (1861 – 1944), regarded as the Father of Indian Chemical Science was an eminent Bengali chemist, educationist, historian, industrialist and philanthropist. He established the first modern …
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Vikram Sarabhai: Father Of India’s Space Program
Vikram Sarabhai is an Indian physicist and astronomer. He spearheaded and helped start space research in India. He is therefore internationally known as the Father of the Indian Space Program. …
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Sir Isaac Newton: One Of The Greatest Physicist
Sir Isaac Newton, described as a natural philosopher in his days, was an English mathematician, physicist, and astronomer. Newton is one of the most famous scientists till date (perhaps contended …
Meghnad Saha: One Of India’s Greatest Astrophysicist
Meghnad Saha, an Indian astrophysicist, is widely known for his eponymous Saha ionisation equation. His seminal work resulting in the thermal ionisation equation (Saha ionisation equation) has ushered in a …
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Richard Feynman: Journey of the Most Charismatic Physicist
Richard Phillips Feynman was an American physicist held in much reverence and awe among both the scientific community and the public alike. This was a result of his charismatic personality …
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Rachel Carson: The Finest Nature Writer of Twentieth Century
The sedge is wither’d from the lake, And no birds sing — John KeatsLines that influenced the title of ‘Silent Spring’ Rachel Carson, an American marine biologist, author and conservationist, …
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Carl Sagan: A Pop Science Icon
I went to the librarian and asked for a book about stars; … And the answer was stunning. It was that the Sun was a star but really close. The …
STEM Story: Ronald Vale
Ronald Vale is a well-known American cell biologist and a biochemist, known for his work on motor proteins, in particular kinesin and dynein. He is currently a professor at the …
Satyendranath Bose: The Man Behind Bosons
Satyendra Nath Bose, FRS was an Indian mathematician and physicist specializing in theoretical physics. He is best known for his work on quantum mechanics in the early 1920s, collaboration with …
Frederick Sanger: The Only Person With Two Nobel Prizes in Chemistry
Frederick Sanger was a British biochemist who is the only person to be awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice. In 1958, he was awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for …
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John Bardeen: The Only Person With Two Nobel Prizes in Physics
John Bardeen was an American physicist. He is the only person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for …
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Frances Allen: First Woman To Win The Turing Award
Frances Elizabeth Allen is an American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers. She is the first woman who won the prestigious Turing Award. Allen was born …
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Dennis Gabor: Father of Holography
Dennis Gabor was a Hungarian-British electrical engineer and physicist, most notable for inventing holography, for which he later received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics. He was born in Budapest, …
STEM Story: Juliana Spahr – A Scientific Illustrator
Juliana is a professional scientific illustrator and lecturer with a masters degree in scientific illustration from Maastricht University and Zuyd Hogeschool in the Netherlands. Juliana travels around the world giving …
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STEM Story: Shilpi Mandal – An Integrated Master’s Student In Mathematics
Shilpi Mandal is an Integrated Masters’ student in Mathematical Sciences at the University of Hyderabad, India. Her research area is an intersection of algebra and number theory. She is a …
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STEM Story: Natasha Barrett – A Geologist And An Isotope Geochemist
Natasha is a geologist, high-temperature isotope geochemist, and 2020 National Geographic Explorer who is researching the composition and evolution of Earth’s mantle lithosphere. Natasha holds a BSc in chemistry and …
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STEM Story: Calley Chateau – A Zooplankton Researcher
Calley Chateau is a Master’s student at the University of Western Cape, South Africa. Her research is based on Zooplankton. She is a commercial diver and an ambassador for Women …
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