Sundar Pichai

Pichai Sundararajan, better known as Sundar Pichai, is an Indian-American business executive. He is the chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc. and its subsidiary Google. Born in Madurai India, Pichai earned his degree from IIT Kharagpur in metallurgical engineering. As a boy growing up in Madras, Pichai slept with his brother in the living room of the cramped family home, but his father, an ele.....

Rahul Bajaj

Rahul Bajaj is an Indian billionaire businessman. He is the chairman of the Indian conglomerate Bajaj Group and a member of parliament. Bajaj comes from the business house started by Jamnalal Bajaj. He was awarded the third-highest civilian award Padma Bhushan in 2001. In a recent interview for the Creating Emerging Markets project at the Harvard Business School, Bajaj provides a devastating crit.....

Anil Manibhai Naik

Anil Manibhai Naik, popularly known as A. M. Naik, is an Indian industrialist, philanthropist and the Group Chairman of Larsen & Toubro Limited, an Indian engineering conglomerate, and since 2018, the Chairman of the National Skill Development Corporation. Anil Manibhai Naik, is one of the most influential entrepreneurs in India. Ever since he took charge of Larsen & Turbo, he has fought many batt.....

George Stephenson

George Stephenson was a British civil engineer and mechanical engineer. Renowned as the "Father of Railways", Stephenson was considered by the Victorians a great example of diligent application and thirst for improvement. Self-help advocate Samuel Smiles particularly praised his achievements. George Stephenson, English engineer and principal inventor of the railroad locomotive. Stephenson was the .....

John Smeaton

John Smeaton FRS was a British civil engineer responsible for the design of bridges, canals, harbours and lighthouses. He was also a capable mechanical engineer and an eminent physicist. Smeaton was the first self-proclaimed "civil engineer", and is often regarded as the "father of civil engineering". John Smeaton was an English engineer and a physicist, famously known as the ‘Father of Civil En.....

Ashish Sen

Ashish Sen is an American professor and transportation statistician based in Chicago. He currently serves as Vice Chairman of the Chicago Transit Authority and President of South-East Asia Center. In 1998, Sen was nominated by President Bill Clinton and confirmed by the United States Senate as the Director of the Bureau of Transportation Statistics in the U.S. Department of Transportation. His re.....

John Rennie the Elder

John Rennie FRSE FRS was a Scottish civil engineer who designed many bridges, canals, docks and warehouses, and a pioneer in the use of structural cast-iron. John Rennie was a Scottish civil engineer famous for building canals, harbours, and bridges throughout Britain. Considered to be one of the greatest engineers of his time, Rennie was much respected throughout Britain for his technical brilli.....

Arvind Subramanian

Arvind Subramanian is an Indian economist and the former Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India, having taken charge of the position on 16 October 2014 to 20 June 2018 succeeding Raghuram Rajan. Arvind Subramanian, nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, is a senior fellow at Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affai.....

Karl Ferdinand Braun

Karl Ferdinand Braun was a German electrical engineer, inventor, physicist and Nobel laureate in physics. Ferdinand Braun, in full Karl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1909 with Guglielmo Marconi for the development of wireless telegraphy. Braun received his doctorate from the University of Berlin in 1872. After appointments at Würzburg, Leipzig, Marbu.....

D. Ramanaidu

Daggubati Ramanaidu was an Indian film producer and the founder of Suresh Productions known for his work in Telugu cinema. He was placed in the Guinness Book of World Records for the most films produced by an individual, with more than 150 films in 13 Indian languages. Daggubati Ramanaidu was a multilingual Indian film producer. He was the founder of Suresh Productions and held the Guinness Book .....

Inderjit Singh

Prof Inderjit Singh Dhaliwal is a serial entrepreneur and former politician in Singapore's parliament representing the Ang Mo Kio GRC from 1996 to 2015. Born in Punjab, India, he came to Singapore when he was 10 months old, Singh attended Kaki Bukit Primary School in Singapore and then progressed to Broadrick Secondary School and Temasek Junior College. He began his university education with a Bac.....

Dennis Gabor

Dennis Gabor CBE FRS was a Hungarian-British electrical engineer and physicist, most notable for inventing holography, for which he later received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics. Dennis Gabor, invented holography, a system of lensless, three-dimensional photography that has many applications. Gabor was born as Günszberg Dénes, into a Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary. In 1918, his family co.....

Christopher Cockerell

Sir Christopher Sydney Cockerell CBE RDI FRS was an English engineer, best known as the inventor of the hovercraft. Cockerell was born in Cambridge, where his father, Sir Sydney Cockerell, was curator of the Fitzwilliam Museum. Christopher attended the preparatory school of St Faith's. Christopher was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, Norfolk. He matriculated at Peterhouse, Cambridge to read mec.....

S. P. Balasubrahmanyam

Indian playback singer Panditaradhyula Balasubrahmanyam, credited and also known as S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, S. P. B. or Balu, was an Indian playback singer, television presenter, music director, actor, dubbing artist, and film producer who worked predominantly in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi, and Malayalam films. Balasubrahmanyam has won six National Film Awards for Best Male Playback Singer for .....

Flinders Petrie

Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie, FRS, FBA, commonly known as Flinders Petrie, was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and preservation of artefacts. Sir Flinders Petrie, in full Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie, British archaeologist and Egyptologist who made valuable contributions to the techniques and methods of field excavation and invented a se.....

T. Harish Rao

Thaneeru Harish Rao is an Indian TRS politician who is the current Minister of State for Finance of Telangana from September 2019 and MLA from Siddipet constituency since 2004. Between 2014 and 2018, he served as Minister for Irrigation, Marketing & Legislative Affairs of Telangana. Rao was born in Chintamadaka, Siddipet, and his native place is Thotapally in Velama Community Family, Karimnagar D.....

Pete Conrad

Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. was an American NASA astronaut, aeronautical engineer, naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and commanded the Apollo 12 space mission, on which he became the third person to walk on the Moon. Conrad was selected in NASA's second astronaut class in 1962. Pete Conrad, byname of Charles P. Conrad, Jr., American astronaut, copilot on the Gemini 5 spaceflight (1965), comman.....

Nandan Nilekani

Nandan Nilekani is an Indian entrepreneur. He co-founded Infosys and is the non-executive chairman of Infosys replacing R Seshasayee and Ravi Venkatesan, who were the co-chairs of the board, on 24 August 2017. Nandan Nilekani is an Indian entrepreneur. He co-founded Infosys and is the non-executive chairman of Infosys replacing R Seshasayee and Ravi Venkatesan, who were the co-chairs of the board.....

Frank Whittle

Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, OM, KBE, CB, FRS, FRAeS was an English inventor and Royal Air Force air officer. He is credited with inventing the turbojet engine. A patent was submitted by Maxime Guillaume in 1921 for a similar invention; however, this was technically unfeasible at the time. The son of a mechanic, Whittle entered the Royal Air Force (RAF) as a boy apprentice and soon qualified .....

K. Seshadri Iyer

Kumarapuram Seshadri Iyer KCSI, was an Indian advocate who served as the Dewan of Mysore from 1883 to 1901. He was the second Dewan of Mysore state since the reinstatement of the Wodeyar family on its throne in 1881 and was the longest serving Dewan of the princely state as well. Kumarapuram Seshadri Iyer (or Aiyar) KCSI (1 June 1845 – 13 September 1901), was an Indian advocate who served as the.....

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