Hugo Eckener

Hugo Eckener was the manager of the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin during the inter-war years, and also the commander of the famous Graf Zeppelin for most of its record-setting flights, including the first airship flight around the world, making him the most successful airship commander in history. Hugo Eckner wa a German aeronautical engineer and commander of the first lighter-than-air aircraft to fly a.....

K. C. Pant

Krishna Chandra Pant was an Indian Member of Parliament for 26 years and was the Prime Minister's interlocutor on Kashmir. He was a cabinet minister in the Government of India and held several constitutional positions over a period of 37 years. Krishna Chandra Pant was an Indian Member of Parliament for 26 years and was the Prime Minister's interlocutor on Kashmir. He was a cabinet minister in th.....

Thomas Telford

Thomas Telford FRS, FRSE was a Scottish civil engineer, architect and stonemason, and road, bridge and canal builder. After establishing himself as an engineer of road and canal projects in Shropshire, he designed numerous infrastructure projects in his native Scotland, as well as harbours and tunnels. Thomas Telfor, a versatile Scottish civil engineer whose crowning achievement was the design an.....

Sarala Devi

Sarala Devi was an Indian independence activist, feminist, social activist, politician and writer. She was the first Odia woman to join the Non-cooperation movement in 1921 and the first Odia woman delegate of the Indian National Congress. She became the first woman to be elected to the Odisha Legislative Assembly on 1 April 1936. She was also the first female Speaker of the Odisha Legislative Ass.....

Paul Dirac

Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac OM FRS was an English theoretical physicist who is regarded as one of the most significant physicists of the 20th century. Dirac made fundamental contributions to the early development of both quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac’ father was Swiss and his mother English. He was educated at the Merchant Venturer’s Secondary School, B.....

C. K. Prahalad

Coimbatore Krishnarao Prahalad was a corporate and social strategist, educator and author. He was the Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished University Professor of Corporate Strategy at the University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross School of Business Prahalad was born in Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu).. His father was a Tamil scholar and judge in Madras (now Chennai). At 19, he had finished his BSc degree i.....

Giorgetto Giugiaro

Giorgetto Giugiaro is an Italian automobile designer. He has worked on supercars and popular everyday vehicles. He was born in Garessio, Cuneo, Piedmont. Giugiaro was named Car Designer of the Century in 1999 and inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame in 2002. Giorgetto Giugiaro is arguably the world’s most influential modern automotive designer. He was born in Garessio, Italy in 1938. His f.....

M. S. Swaminathan

Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan is an Indian geneticist and administrator, known for his role in India's Green Revolution. Swaminathan has been called the "Father of Green Revolution in India" for his role in introducing and further developing high-yielding varieties of wheat in India. Professor M S Swaminathan has been acclaimed by the TIME magazine as one of the twenty most influential Asians o.....

James Henry Greathead

James Henry Greathead was a mechanical and civil engineer renowned for his work on the London Underground railways, Winchester Cathedral, and Liverpool overhead railway, as well as being one of the earliest proponents of the English Channel, Irish Sea and Bristol Channel tunnels. Using his ‘Greathead Shield’, the engineer James Henry Greathead was instrumental in the building of the London Un.....

Rajendra Singh

Rajendra Singh is an Indian water conservationist and environmentalist from Alwar district, Rajasthan in India. Also known as "waterman of India", he won the Magsaysay Award in 2001 and Stockholm Water Prize in 2015. He runs an NGO called 'Tarun Bharat Sangh', which was founded in 1975. The NGO based in village hori-Bhikampura in Thanagazi tehsil, near Sariska Tiger Reserve, has been instrumental.....

Neil Armstrong

Neil Alden Armstrong was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer, and the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also a naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor. Neil A. Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, was born in Wapakoneta, Ohio.and was the son of Viola Louise and Stephen Koenig Armstrong.The family moved around the state repeatedly, living in 16 towns over th.....

M. A. Muthiah Chettiar

Raja Sir Muttaiya Annamalai Muthiah Chettiar was an Indian banker, politician, philanthropist, socialite and cultural activist who served as Mayor of Madras city and Minister of Excise and Education in the provincial government of Madras Presidency. Raja Sir Muttaiya Annamalai Muthiah Chettiar was an Indian banker, politician, philanthropist, socialite and cultural activist who served as Mayor of .....

Alan Mulally

Alan Roger Mulally is an American aerospace engineer and manufacturing executive. He is the former President and Chief Executive Officer of the Ford Motor Company. He retired from Ford Motor Company on July 1, 2014. .....

Kishore Kumar

Kishore Kumar was an Indian playback singer and actor. He was one of the most popular singers in the Indian film industry and from soft numbers to peppy tracks to romantic moods, Kumar sang in different genres but some of his rare compositions which were considered classics were lost in time. Kishore Kumar (born Abhas Kumar Ganguly was an Indian playback singer and actor. According to Ashok Kuma.....

George Francis FitzGerald

Prof George Francis FitzGerald FRS FRSE was an Irish academic and physicist who served as Erasmus Smith's Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin from 1881 to 1901. George Francis FitzGerald, a physicist who first suggested a method of producing radio waves, thus helping to lay the basis of wireless telegraphy. He also developed a theory, now known as the Lorent.....

Anu Aga

Anu Aga is an Indian billionaire businesswoman and social worker who led Thermax, an energy and environment engineering business, as its chairperson from 1996 to 2004. She was among the eight richest Indian women, and in 2007 was part of 40 Richest Indians by net worth according to Forbes magazine. She was awarded with the Mumbai Women of the Decade Achievers Award by ALL Ladies League, the all l.....

Pierre Charles L’Enfant

Pierre Charles L'Enfant was a French-American military engineer who designed the basic plan for Washington, D.C. known today as the L'Enfant Plan. Pierre Charles L’Enfant, was a French-born American engineer, architect, and urban designer who designed the basic plan for Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States. L’Enfant studied art under his father at the Royal Academy of Painti.....

Ganga Prasad Birla

Ganga Prasad Birla, born in Benares was an Indian industrialist. Ganga Prasad Birla or simply G. P. Birla (1922 – 2010) was an industrialist, educationalist and philanthropist and fourth generation member of the Birla business family. Born as the son of businessman Brij Mohan Birla and grandson of Read More

Meena Kumari

Meena Kumari was an Indian film actress and poet, who worked in Hindi films. Popularly known as The Tragedy Queen, she was active between 1939 and 1972. Kumari was described by critics as a "historically incomparable" actress of Hindi cinema. Meena Kumari[1] (born Mahjabeen Bano was an Indian film actress and poet, who worked in Hindi films. In a career spanning 33 years, she starred in about 92.....

Joseph Henry Gilbert

Sir Joseph Henry Gilbert, Fellow of the Royal Society was an English chemist, noteworthy for his long career spent improving the methods of practical agriculture. He was a fellow of the Royal Society. SIR JOSEPH HENRY GILBERT was an English chemist, born at Hull. He studied chemistry first at Glasgow under Thomas Thomson; then at University College, London, in the laboratory of A. T. Thomson (177.....

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