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.....

V. K. Krishna Menon

Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon (3 May 1896 – 6 October 1974) was an Indian nationalist, diplomat, and politician, described by some as the second most powerful man in India, after his ally, the 1st Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru.Noted for his eloquence, brilliance, and forceful, highly abrasive personality, Menon inspired widespread adulation and fervent detraction in both India and .....

Robert W. Wood

Robert Williams Wood was an American physicist and inventor who made pivotal contributions to the field of optics. He pioneered infrared and ultraviolet photography. Wood's patents and theoretical work inform modern understanding of the physics of ultraviolet light, and made possible myriad uses of UV fluorescence which became popular after World War He published many articles on spectroscopy, pho.....

Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray was an Indian film director, scriptwriter, documentary filmmaker, author, lyricist, magazine editor, illustrator, calligrapher, and music composer. Satyajit Ray (Bengali pronunciation: ['??t?od?it 'rai?] (listen); 2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter, music composer, graphic artist, lyricist and author, widely regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers .....

Anand Mahindra

Anand Gopal Mahindra is an Indian billionaire businessman, and the chairman of Mahindra Group, a Mumbai-based business conglomerate. He belongs to a famous business family. His father’s name is Harish Mahindra, industrialist and mother’s name is Indira Mahindra. Anand completed his early schooling from Lawrence School, Lovedale. Anand went on to study architecture and film making from Harvard .....

Man Mohan Sharma

Man Mohan Sharma FREng is an Indian chemical engineer. He was educated at Jodhpur, Mumbai, and Cambridge. At age 27, he was appointed Professor of Chemical Engineering in the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai. Man Mohan Sharma is an Indian chemical engineer.[2] He was educated at Jodhpur, Mumbai, and Cambridge. At age 27, he was appointed Professor of Chemical Engineering in the Institute.....

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