Sethunathasarma Krishnaswami
Sethunathasarma Krishnaswami, popularly known as Swami, was an Indian geochemist and an honorary scientist at the geosciences division of the Physical Research Laboratory. Sethunathasarma Krishnaswami, popularly known as Swami, was an Indian geochemist and an honorary scientist at the geosciences division of the Physical Research Laboratory. He was known for his studies on low temperature geochem.....
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Hideo Shima
Hideo Shima was a Japanese engineer and the driving force behind the building of the first bullet train. Shima was born in Osaka in 1901, and educated at the Tokyo Imperial University, where he studied Mechanical Engineering. Hideo Shima was the developer of Japan's Shinkansen or bullet train.His father was a part of a group that had built Japan's then emerging railroad industry. He got educated .....
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Chandrashekarendra Saraswati
Jagadguru Shri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Mahaswamigal also known as the Sage of Kanchi or Mahaperiyava was the 68áµ—Ê° Jagadguru Shankaracharya of the Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham. Mahaperiyava's discourses have been recorded in a Tamil book titled "Deivathin Kural". Mahaswami Chandrashekarendra saraswathi was born into a Kannadiga Smartha Hoysala Karnataka Brahmin family in Viluppuram, South Arcot .....
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Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy was the Seventh President of India, serving from 1977 to 1982. Beginning a long political career with the Indian National Congress Party in the independence movement, he went on to hold several key offices in independent India—as the first Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, a two-time Speaker of the Lok Sabha and a Union Minister—before becoming the youngest-ever Indian pre.....
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Rudolf E. Kálmán
Rudolf Emil Kálmán was a Hungarian-American electrical engineer, mathematician, and inventor. He is most noted for his co-invention and development of the Kalman filter, a mathematical algorithm that is widely used in signal processing, control systems, and guidance, navigation and control.For this work, U.S. President Barack Obama awarded Kálmán the National Medal of Science on October 7, 200.....
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James B. Francis
James Bicheno Francis was a British-American civil engineer, who invented the Francis turbine. James Bicheno Francis, British-American hydraulic engineer and inventor of the mixed-flow, or Francis, turbine (a combination of the radial- and axial-flow turbines) that was used for low-pressure installations. James Francis was born in South Leigh, near Witney, Oxfordshire in England, United Kingdom. .....
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Venkatraman Radhakrishnan
Venkataraman Radhakrishnan was a space scientist and member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He ended his career as professor emeritus of the Raman Research Institute in Bangalore, India, of which he had previously been director from 1972 to 1994. Radhakrishnan was born in Tondiarpet, a suburb of Madras, to Nobel laureate physicist Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman and his wife Lokasundari.....
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Frederick McKinley Jones
Frederick McKinley Jones was an American inventor, entrepreneur, winner of the National Medal of Technology, and an inductee of the National Inventors Hall of Fame. His innovations in refrigeration brought great improvement to the long-haul transportation of perishable goods. He co-founded Thermo King. Frederick McKinley Jones was an American inventor and entrepreneur, who was also a pioneer in th.....
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K. M. Vasudevan Pillai
K. M. Vasudevan Pillai is an Indian educationist, social entrepreneur, institution-builder, and philanthropist. K. M. Vasudevan Pillai is the founder and CEO of the Mahatma Education Society, a not-for-profit trust that manages 48 educational institutions, from schools and colleges to institutions of architecture, management, engineering, vocational education, and teacher training. The institution.....
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Georg Bednorz
Johannes Georg Bednorz is a German physicist who, together with K. Alex Müller, discovered high-temperature superconductivity in ceramics, for which they shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics. Bednorz , from childhood, was more practically inclined, preferring to work on motorcycles and cars. In high school he developed an interest in the natural sciences, focusing on chemistry. In 1968, Bednorz.....
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Irving Wightman Colburn
Irving Wightman Colburn was an American inventor and manufacturer. Colburn developed a process for the production of continuous flat glass disks which made the mass production for window panes possible. Colburn began his experiments in 1899. In one patent for a machine to produce flat glass on 25 March 1902. Irving Wightman Colburn (16 May 1861 – 4 September 1917) was an American inventor and ma.....
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C. H. Hanumantha Rao
Chennamaneni Hanumantha Rao is an Indian economist and writer. He was a member of the National Advisory Council from 2004 to 2008 and chaired the Technical Committee on Drought prone Areas Programme and Desert Development Programme of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices. Awards: Padma Bhushan Rao was born in Karimnagar of present-day Telangana, India.[6] He completed .....
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Arthur Cotton
General Sir Arthur Thomas Cotton KCSI was a British general and irrigation engineer. Cotton devoted his life to the construction of irrigation and navigation canals throughout British India. He helped many people by building the Dowleswaram Barrage, the Prakasam Barrage and the Kurnool Cuddappah Canal.