The Great Indian Scientists - 2

Indian Scientists and their Inventions

14. SHANTI SWARUP BHATNAGAR

(Born: 21-02-1894  Died: 01-01-1955)

FIELD: Chemistry

WORKS/INVENTIONS:
"Father of Research Laboratories"

First Director for "Directorate of Scientific and Industrial Research"

When he was Director for SCIR he setup 12 CSIR Laboratories in India.

He did considerable work in Applied and Industrial Chemistry.

15. VIKRAM SARABHAI

 

(Born: 12-08-1919  Died: 30-12-1971)

FIELD: Physics

WORKS/INVENTIONS:
"Father of Indian Space Program"

Established Physical Research Laboratory in Ahmedabad.

16. C.R. RAO

 (Born: 10-09-1920)

FIELDS: Mathematics, Statistics

WORKS/INVENTIONS:

Cramer-Rao Inequality

Rao-Blackwell Theorem

Rao's Orthogonal Arrays

Rao's Score Test

17. K.S. CHANDRASEKHARAN

 

(Born: 21-11-1920)

FIELDS: Mathematics (Number Theory, Summability)

WORKS/INVENTIONS:

Famous Indian Scientist

Great Talented Organizer and Administrator of Science

With his Hard Work Tata Institute of Fundamental Research recognised worldwide

18. G.N. RAMACHANDRAN

(Born: 08-10-1922  Died: 07-04-2001)

FIELD: Biophysics

WORKS/INVENTIONS:

Ramachandran plot (Ramachandran phy-psi plot)
Made several Discoveries in Molecular Physics.

His contributions in the field of X-ray crystallography were very important

(anomalous dispersion, new kinds of Fourier syntheses, X-ray intensity statistics)

19. HARISH CHANDRA

(Born: 11-10-1923  Died: 16-10-1983)

FIELD: Physics, Mathematics

WORKS/INVENTIONS:

Lie Groups

Real Lie Groups

Lie Algebras

p-adic Groups

Finite- Dimensional of Semi-simple Lie Groups

Plancheral Measure

Harish Chandra's Character Formula

Harish Chandra's Isomorphism

Harish Chandra's C-Function

Harish Chandra's Homomorphism

Harish Chandra's Module

Harish Chandra's Regularity Theorem

Harish Chandra's Transform

Harish Chandra's Schwartz Space

Harish Chandra's Ξ Function 

Harish Chandra's Great Contributions are - Theory of Lie Groups, Harmonic Analysis, Representation Theory and related areas

20. M.K. VAINU BAPPU

(Born: 10-08-1927  Died: 19-08-1982)

FIELD: Astronomy

WORKS/INVENTIONS:

Bappu-Bok-Newkrik

Bappu-Wilson Effect

21. A.P.J. ABDUL KALAM

(Born: 15-10-1931)

FIELD: Nuclear Physics

WORKS/INVENTIONS:

"Missile Man of India" 

"Father of India Missile Program"

Ballistic Missile

Launch Vehicle Technology

Kalam-Raju Stent (Low Cost Coronary Stent)

Kalam-Raju Tablet ((Rugged Tablet PC for healthcare in Rural Areas)