Henry William Stiegel

Henry William Stiegel was a German-American glassmaker and ironmaster. Stiegel was the eldest of six children born to John Frederick and Dorothea Elizabeth Stiegel in the Free Imperial City of Cologne. He immigrated to British North America in 1750 with his mother and younger brother, Anthony. Henry William Stiegel, German Heinrich Wilhelm Stiegel, was a ironmaster, glassmaker, and town builder w.....

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Ravi Shankar is an Indian spiritual leader. He is frequently referred to as "Sri Sri", Guru ji, or Gurudev. He founded the Art of Living Foundation in 1981, a volunteer-based NGO providing social support to the people. In 1997, he established a Geneva-based charity, the International Association for Human Values, an NGO that engages in relief work and rural development. Ravi Shankar was born in P.....

Christopher Hinton

Christopher Hinton, Baron Hinton of Bankside OM KBE FRS FREng was a British nuclear engineer, and supervisor of the construction of Calder Hall, the world's first large-scale commercial nuclear power station. Hinton supervised the construction of Calder Hall, the world’s first large-scale (4x60 MW) nuclear power station (opened in 1956). Hinton was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge (1923�.....

Rangarajan Kumaramangalam

Phanindranath Rangarajan Kumaramangalam was a prominent politician of the Indian National Congress and later the Bharatiya Janata Party and a Member of parliament, Lok Sabha from the Salem constituency from 1984 to 1996 and Tiruchirapalli constituency from 1998 to 2000. He served as the Minister of State for Law, Justice and Company Affairs in the P. V. Narasimha Rao government from July 1991 to .....

Theodore von Kármán

Theodore von Kármán was a Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer, and physicist who was active primarily in the fields of aeronautics and astronautics. He was responsible for many key advances in aerodynamics, notably on supersonic and hypersonic airflow characterization. Von Kármán was the third of five children of a Jewish professor. Von Kármán showed a natural mathematical f.....

Ashok Gulati

Ashok Gulati is an Indian agricultural economist and a former chairman of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices, the advisory body of the Government of India on food supplies and pricing policies. Gulati was instrumental in the hiking the minimum support price of several food grains. He is also a member of the Task Force on Agriculture set by the prime minister under NITI Aayog and chai.....

Augustin-Jean Fresnel

Augustin-Jean Fresnel was a French civil engineer and physicist whose research in optics led to the almost unanimous acceptance of the wave theory of light, excluding any remnant of Newton's corpuscular theory, from the late 1830s until the end of the 19th century. Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist who pioneered in optics and did much to establish the wave theory of light advanced by Englis.....

Aurel Stodola

Aurel Boleslav Stodola was a Slovak engineer, physicist, and inventor. He was a pioneer in the area of technical thermodynamics and its applications and published his book Die Dampfturbine in 1903. Aurel Stodola was a Slovak engineer and inventor. He originated the study of thermodynamics and produced significant work in a number of scientific fields. He was a professor at the Institute of Techno.....

Henry J. Kaiser

Henry John Kaiser was an American industrialist who became known as the father of modern American shipbuilding. Prior to World War II, Kaiser was involved in the construction industry; his company was one of the companies that built Hoover Dam. Henry J. Kaiser, was founder of more than 100 companies including Kaiser Aluminum, Kaiser Steel, Kaiser Cement and Gypsum. In 1913 Kaiser was working for.....

Maharana Pratap

Pratap Singh I, popularly known as Maharana Pratap, was a king of Mewar, a region in north-western India in the present-day state of Rajasthan He successfully resisted efforts of the Mughal emperor Akbar to conquer his area and is honoured as a hero in Rajasthan. The son and successor of the weak Rana Udai Singh, Rana Pratap sought to avenge the 1567 pillage of his capital, Chitor, and subsequent.....

John Scott Russell

John Scott Russell FRSE FRS FRSA was a Scottish civil engineer, naval architect and shipbuilder who built Great Eastern in collaboration with Isambard Kingdom Brunel. John Scott Russell, the British civil engineer best known for research in ship design. He designed the first seagoing battleship built entirely of iron. A graduate of the University of Glasgow (at age 16), Russell became professor o.....

Chinmayananda Saraswati

Swami Chinmayananda Saraswati, commonly referred to as Swami Chinmayananda, was a Hindu spiritual leader and a teacher who inspired the formation of Chinmaya Mission, a worldwide nonprofit organisation, to spread the knowledge of Advaita Vedanta, the Bhagavad Gita, the Upanishads, and other ancient Hindu scriptures. Balakrishna Menon was born into an aristocratic family of Kerala state. After obt.....

K. N. Shankara

Koodli Nanjunda Ghanapathi Shankara was a space scientist from India. He was the Director of ISRO's Space Applications Centre, Ahmedabad and ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore. Koodli Nanjunda Ghanapathi Shankara was a space scientist from India. He was the Director of ISRO's Space Applications Centre, Ahmedabad and ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore. Starting his career at SAC in 1971, after his doc.....

Rabindranath Thakur

Rabindranath Tagore FRAS was an Indian polymath – poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Rabindranath Tagore, Bengali poet, short-story writer, song composer, playwright, essayist, and painter who introduced new prose and vers.....

Pramod Maheshwari

Pramod Maheshwari is an Indian educator and entrepreneur and currently Founder Chairman, CEO and MD of Career Point Ltd. a Kota, India-based Education Company that runs Cram school for various examinations An IIT Delhi alumnus and physics teacher, Pramod founded Career Point in 1993 as a professional tutoring company from a small garage and 50 students as a very humble beginning. His company now .....

Gopa Periyadan

Chief Operating Officer. Gopa joined Mobiveil as it's Chief Operating Officer in August 2012 and brings more than 32 years of senior-level management, engineering, sales and marketing experience in multiple sectors of the electronics industry in Product as well as Services space. Gopa Periyadan (born Gopakumar Kadinjipalli Periyadan) is an engineer turned successful entrepreneur and business lea.....

Dieter Zetsche

Dieter Zetsche is a German engineer and business executive. He is the chairman of TUI AG. He was the chairman of the board of management of Daimler AG and head of Mercedes-Benz until 22 May 2019, a role he had held since 2006, in addition to being a member of the company's board since 199 Dieter Zetsche studied electrical engineering at the University of Karlsruhe and came to the Research unit of .....

Frank Conrad

Frank Conrad was an electrical engineer, best known for radio development, including his work as a pioneer broadcaster. He worked for the Westinghouse Electrical and Manufacturing Company in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for half a century. Conrad had little formal schooling when he joined Westinghouse Electrical and Manufacturing Company, Pittsburgh, as a 16-year-old apprentice in 1890. Neverthel.....

Jalagam Vengala Rao

Jalagam Vengal Rao or Jalagam Vengala Rao was for much of his life a member of the Indian National Congress and was the Chief Minister of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh . Jalagam Vengala Rao was for much of his life a member of the Indian National Congress and was the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh. Rao hailed from Bayyannagudem. His involvement in politics began when he was in his twenties,.....

Henri Pitot

Henri Pitot was a French hydraulic engineer and the inventor of the pitot tube. In a pitot tube, the height of the fluid column is proportional to the square of the velocity of the fluid at the depth of the inlet to the pitot tube. Beginning his career as a mathematician and astronomer, Pitot won election to the Academy of Sciences in 1724. He became interested in the problem of flow of water in r.....

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