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…
Category: Science Stories
Science Stories about Scientists, Researches, Equations, etc.
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…