Dhundiraj Govind Phalke

Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, popularly known as Dadasaheb Phalke, was an Indian producer-director-screenwriter, known as the Father of Indian cinema. His debut film, Raja Harishchandra, was the first Indian movie in 1913, and is now known as India's first full-length feature film He made a total of 95 movies and 26 short films during his career. One of his most appreciated works includes Shri Krishna .....

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss was a German mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to many fields in mathematics and science. German mathematician, generally regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of all time for his contributions to number theory, geometry, probability theory, geodesy, planetary astronomy, the theory of functions, and potential theory (including elect.....

Harold Urey

Harold Clayton Urey was an American physical chemist whose pioneering work on isotopes earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1934 for the discovery of deuterium. Harold Clayton Urey received his Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology from the University of Montana in 1917 and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California in 1923. Following postgraduate work at Niels Bohr's Institute f.....

Raja Ravi Varma

Raja Ravi Varma was a celebrated Indian painter and artist. He is considered among the greatest painters in the history of Indian art. His works are one of the best examples of the fusion of European academic art with a purely Indian sensibility and iconography Additionally, he was notable for making affordable lithographs of his paintings available to the public, which greatly enhanced his reach .....

B. Jayant Baliga

Bantval Jayant Baliga is an Indian electrical engineer best known for his work in power semiconductor devices, and particularly the invention of the insulated gate bipolar transistor. Dr. B. Jayant Baliga wrote: "Power semiconductor devices are recognized as a key component of all power electronic systems. Baliga grew up in Jalahalli, a small village near Bangalore, India. His father, Bantwal Vitt.....

Ferruccio Lamborghini

Ferruccio Lamborghini was an Italian industrialist. In 1963, he created Automobili Lamborghini, a maker of high-end sports cars in Sant'Agata Bolognese. After World War II, Lamborghini founded a business making tractors from reconfigured surplus military machines, near Bologna, Italy. He later expanded into other ventures, including manufacturing air-conditioning and heating systems, and grew rich.....

Charles Joseph Van Depoele

Charles Joseph Van Depoele was an electrical engineer, inventor, and pioneer in electric railway technology, including the first trolley pole Van Depoele became interested in electricity at an early age. He studied and experimented with electricity while attending college in the 1860s, moving to Lille, France to study at the Imperial Lyceum from 1864 to 1869. In 1869, Van Depoele moved to Detroit,.....

Mumtaz Mahal

Mumtaz Mahal, byname of Arjumand Banu Begum wife of Shah Jahān, Mughal emperor of India (1628–58). Having died at a young age only a few years into her husband’s reign, her memory inspired the construction of the Taj Mahal, where she is entombed. Born Arjumand Banu, she was a member of a family that came to command the inner court of the Mughal dynasty . Her family’s high status was secured.....

Krushna Chandra Gajapati

Krushna Chandra Gajapati, honorably known as Maharaja Sir Krushna Chandra Gajapati Narayana Dev KCIE, was a key personality and regarded as the architect of an Independent united Odisha State. . Gajapati was a scion of the Eastern Ganga Dynasty of Paralakhemundi, a Freedom Fighter, the first Prime Minister of Odisha and one of the founding fathers of the Indian Constitution, being a Member of the .....

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's writings capture the range of human emotion and conflict and have been celebrated for more than 400 years. And yet, the personal life of William Shakespeare is somewhat a mystery. Shakespeare was the third child of John Shakespeare, a leather merchant, and Mary Arden, a local landed heiress. Scant records exist of Shakespeare's childhood and virtually none regarding his education. Sc.....

John Frank Stevens

John Frank Stevens was an American civil engineer who built the Great Northern Railway in the United States and was chief engineer on the Panama Canal between 1905 and 1907 John Frank Stevens, a railroad executive who, as chief engineer of the Panama Canal from late 1905 to April 1907, laid the basis for that project’s successful completion. Stevens, who had only limited formal education, becam.....

Guglielmo Marconi

Marchese Guglielmo Marconi was an Italian electrical engineer and inventor who invented the wireless telegraph known today as radio. uglielmo Marconi was born at Bologna, Italy, to an Italian country gentleman family. He was educated privately at Bologna, Florence and Leghorn. Even as a boy he took a keen interest in physical and electrical science and studied the works of Maxwell, Hertz, Righi, L.....

Edmund Cartwright

Edmund Cartwright FSA was an English inventor. He graduated from Oxford University very early and went on to invent the power loom. Married to local Elizabeth McMac at 19, he was the brother of Major John Cartwright, a political reformer and radical, and George Cartwright, explorer of Labrador. Cartwright was educated at Oxford University and began a career in the church, eventually becoming prebe.....

Sachin Tendulkar

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar is an Indian former international cricketer and a former captain of the Indian national team. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket. He is the highest run scorer of all time in International cricket. Tendulkar took up cricket at the age of eleven, made his Test debut on 15 November 1989 against Pakistan in Karachi at the age of sixte.....

Max Planck

Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck, ForMemRS was a German theoretical physicist whose discovery of energy quanta won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918. Planck came from a traditional, intellectual family. His paternal great-grandfather and grandfather were both theology professors in Göttingen; his father was a law professor at the University of Kie and Munich. One of his uncles was also a judge.I.....

Jamling Tenzing Norgay

Norgay is the son of mountaineer and guide Tenzing Norgay (who first climbed Mount Everest in 1953 with Sir Edmund Hillary) and Daku, his third wife. Jamling Tenzing Norgay himself later followed in his father's footsteps and climbed Mount Everest in 1996 with a team led by David Breashears that also included mountaineer Ed Viesturs and Araceli Segarra, an experience documented in the 1998 IMAX fi.....

J. Robert Oppenheimer

J. Robert Oppenheimer is often called the "father of the atomic bomb" for leading the Manhattan Project, the program that developed the first nuclear weapon during World War II. Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer served as director of the Los Alamos Laboratory during the development of the atomic bomb. After the 1939 invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany, Oppenheimer was selected to administer a laborat.....

Chetan Bhagat

Chetan Bhagat is an Indian author and columnist. He was included in Time magazine's list of World's 100 Most Influential People in 2010. Bhagat graduated in mechanical engineering at IIT Delhi and completed a master's of business administration degree at IIM Ahmedabad. He started his career as an investment banker but left it after a few years to pursue writing. He has written nine novels and thre.....

Robert Whitehead

British engineer who invented the modern torpedo. He was the first to produce an effective, sub-surface, self-propelled torpedo. It much improved on the spar torpedo used during the American Civil War, which used a charge triggered by a long pole and floated to its target on a small boat. Whitehead’s first torpedo lacked speed and range. However, by 1870 he had increased its speed to 7 knots, ab.....

Queen Elizabeth II

Elizabeth II is Queen of the United Kingdom and 15 other Commonwealth realms. Elizabeth was born in Mayfair, London, as the first child of the Duke and Duchess of York. Her father ascended the throne on the abdication of his brother King Edward VIII in 1936, from which time she was the heir presumptive. She was educated privately at home and began to undertake public duties during the Second World.....

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